President Trump is considering stretching his presidential powers even further by declaring a national emergency to build his border wall.
But he just undermined his case that it’s actually an emergency.
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday, Trump said that he has the “absolute right” to declare an emergency. Then he was asked what would make him take such an action. “My threshold will be if I can’t make a deal with people that are unreasonable” on the partial government shutdown, he said. He added at another point of the negotiations: “Otherwise we’ll go about it in a different manner,” but “I don’t think we’ll have to do that.”
