President Trump said “he may declare a national emergency to circumvent Congress and build a border wall if spending talks fail, raising the stakes for negotiations set to resume later in the day,” The Hill reports.
Said Trump: “I think we might work a deal, and if we don’t we might go that route.”
The president said he has the “absolute right” to declare an emergency, even though some legal scholars and Democratic lawmakers say he does not.
Playbook: “Crazy enough, this might be the only way out of this shutdown right now.”