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Democratic Leaders Are Suing To Stop President Trump From Funding The Southern Border Wall Construction

On Thursday, Democratic leaders voted to file a lawsuit against President Trump’s emergency declaration. They hope the move will block the billions in funding the President’s accessed for border wall construction.

“The President’s sham emergency declaration and unlawful transfers of funds have undermined our democracy, contravening the vote of the bipartisan Congress, the will of the American people and the letter of the Constitution,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said following the vote.

On Thursday the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group, a five-member board that controls the House of Representatives’ general counsel, voted 3-2 to authorize a lawsuit against President Trump’s emergency declaration.

Their lawsuit claims that President Trump violated the Constitution’s Appropriations Clause, which gives lawmakers in Congress the authority to control funding measures.

This vote fell strictly along party lines, with Pelosi, Majority Leader Whip Jim Clyburn and Majority Steny Hoyer voting for it, and Minority Leader Steve Scalise and Minority Whip Kevin McCarthy voting against it.

“The President’s action clearly violates the Appropriations Clause by stealing from appropriated funds, an action that was not authorized by constitutional or statutory authority,” Nancy Pelosi continued in her statement. “Congress, as Article I — the first branch, co-equal to the other branches — must reassert its exclusive responsibilities reserved by the text of the Constitution and protect our system of checks and balances.”

This is not the first time congressional Dems have tried to block the emergency declaration, nor is their first lawsuit.

Both chambers of Congress, with the help of some GOP support, were able to pass a resolution that condemned the President’s emergency crisis. However, in the first veto of his presidency, Trump struck it down. Lawmakers weren’t able to obtain a two-thirds majority in Congress to override the veto.

President Trump’s declaration has also been challenged in court from a many of state attorneys general, led by California. A bunch of progressive and environmental groups are trying to fight the proclamation in the courtroom as well.

Workers and U.S border patrol officers stand next to an excavator working in a section of the new wall between El Paso, Texas, in the United States and Ciudad Juarez as seen from the Mexican side of the border in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, February 5, 2019. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

After accepting the 1.375 billion dollars in funds Congress appropriated for border wall construction in February, the President declared an emergency on the southern border, authorizing billions more in funding from the military’s budget. Pentagon has already authorized the Army Corps of Engineers to shift $1 billion to the southern border wall.

When the President originally made his crisis declaration, he predicted it would face a lawsuit that would eventually make its way to the Supreme Court.

“We will have a national emergency, and then we will then be sued, and they will sue us in the 9th Circuit, even though it shouldn’t be there,” President Trump stated back in February. “And we will possibly get a bad ruling, and then we’ll get another bad ruling. And then we’ll end up in the Supreme Court, and hopefully, we’ll get a fair shake.”

GOP Rep Slams The Democrats For ‘Politicizing Americas Tax System’ With Their ‘Disturbing’ Request For President’s Tax Returns

This Thursday during an interview, Republican Representative Rob Woodall fired back at Democrats who made requests for six years of President Trump’s tax returns.

The GOP representative and member of the House Budget Committee stated that a president shouldn’t be forced to release his tax records.

“We’re politicizing the tax system,” Woodall stated during an interview with Hill.TV. “Presidents have never been forced to release it, they volunteered to release those tax returns.”

Woodall also pointed out that the Ways and Means Committee is using their power to make calculated political moves.

“To see what the Ways and Means Committee is doing, now to use its article one power to weaponize the tax code is really disturbing,” he said.

Rep. Richard Neal previously requested President Trump’s tax returns. “The Ways and Means Committee, in particular, has a responsibility to conduct oversight of our voluntary Federal tax system and determine how Americans — including those elected to our highest office — are complying with those laws,” said Neal in a statement.

His move prompted Republicans to speak out against the request.

“Weaponizing our nation’s tax code by targeting political foes sets a dangerous precedent and weakens Americans privacy right,” Rep. Kevin Brady claimed. “As you know, all Americans have a fundamental right to the privacy of the personal information found in their tax returns.”

Woodall however, hopes that the issue will be something that will be resolved quickly and that the committee will continue to work on other important topics.

“I hope it is just a sign of this first quarter outrage and that we’ll quickly move past that and get into the things the Ways and Means Committee needs to be working on, like trade, like tax policy, like healthcare,” said Woodall.

There’s still no official date for when the IRS Commissioner will make his decision on releasing the returns, but the Treasury Department is already considering fighting the request in court.

States Sue Trump’s Administration Over New Changes To Obama-Era School Meal Standards

On Wednesday, several states, including the District of Columbia, filed a complaint against President Trump’s administration over the changes to school lunch standards they argue could deny “30 million students access to healthy nutritious meals.”

New York, California, Illinois, New Mexico, Minnesota and Vermont were the states that filed the suit against the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutritional Service and Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue.

In the complaint they argued that Trump administration’s Department of Agriculture (USDA) “significantly weakened” the federal standards and didn’t give the “public notice of and an opportunity to comment on the 2018 changes.”

“By gutting the whole-grain standards and halting the progress in reducing sodium, the Trump administration risks stymieing [sic] this great progress and denying 30 million students access to healthy nutritious meals,” New York Attorney General Letitia James said at a news conference on Wednesday, as The Wall Street Journal reported.

The 2012 Obama-era rule, advocated by former first lady Michelle Obama, limited sodium intake and increased whole grains served in meal at schools.

Michelle Obama talks to local elementary school students after picking vegetables with them during the annual fall harvest of the White House Kitchen Garden at the White House in Washington, October 6, 2015. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

“If kids aren’t eating the food, and it’s ending up in the trash, they aren’t getting any nutrition – thus undermining the intent of the program,” Perdue said, according to a 2017 press release.

The National School Lunch Program is a federally assisted program that provides students with healthy meals during the day at little to no cost in schools, according to USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service.

“The Trump Administration has undermined key health benefits for our children — standards for salt and whole grains in school meals — with deliberate disregard for science, expert opinion, and the law,” James said in a statement.

A study from 2014 questioned the government’s assumption regarding low sodium content, however.

“There is no longer any valid basis for the current salt guidelines,” McMaster University professor and one of the study’s authors Andrew Mente said for The Washington Post. “So why are we still scaring people about salt?”

Liberal advocacy groups Center for Science in the Public Interest and Healthy School Food Maryland also filed a similar complaint against this administration’s loosened standards, TheWSJ reported.

The USDA told The Daily Caller News Foundation that it doesn’t comment on pending litigation.

Trump Complains About The U.S. Immigration System:’The Worst, Dumbest System In The World’

As he moves closer to the southern border, President Trump opens up and calls the United States’s immigration policy “the worst, dumbest immigration system in the world.”

On Tuesday, the President was describing what he believes to be a border crisis on our border with Mexico, as The Hill reported.

President Trump has repeatedly warned that he intends to close the border with Mexico if the country continues to do nothing to curb the influx of migrants that are storming the southern border, causing a “breaking point,” according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials.

The President detailed to reporters how he sees that immigration system working when would-be refugees cross the border and ask for asylum.

“If they touch your land, one foot on your land — welcome to being Perry Mason, you now have a big trial,” he said.

President Trump insisted that doesn’t work.

“So what they’ve done over the years is that they release [the refugees] into the United States and they say ‘Come back in four years for a trial’ and nobody comes back … on average one to two percent come back and nobody can understand why they come back,” Trump said. “They’re the only ones that come back.”

Just last week, the Department of Defense announced that it had authorized up to $1 billion to begin construction of 57 miles of a border wall.

San Juan Mayor Slams President Trump Calling Him ‘Heartless, Vengeful, Willing To Let People Starve & Die’

On Tuesday, Puerto Rico Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz, who has been harshly critical of President Donald Trump’s rhetoric and actions involving Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, hurled out her vitriol again as she spoke on MSNBC with host Nicole Wallace, calling the President the “Faker-in-Chief,” intimating that he discriminates, and snapping that he “is heartless … vengeful …” and “willing to let people starve, to let people die.”

Wallace commented: “You had paper towels tossed in the faces of your citizens and your constituents. Does anything shock you any more from this president?”

San Juan’s Mayor Carmen Cruz: “It still continues to shock me.”

Wallace, laughing, “Me too!”

“It still continues to shock the people of Puerto Rico. Just when you think he has gone the lowest he could go, he still goes lower than that … he’s become a fake news cartoon … Mr. President, 3,000 Puerto Ricans died on your watch. They died because your government was inefficient, ineffective, unable to do its job … his vanity is much higher than his humanity is … he continues to embarrass himself; he continues to embarrass the office of the presidency … with all the lies he has put together he has become the “Faker-in-Chief.”” Cruz continued.

Wallace asked: “You are trying to put together an island; you are trying to keep people together. You’ve described a very dire circumstance, with suicide rates going up, you’ve described 3,000 people who’ve lost their lives. What do you need from the federal government today?”

Cruz then ignited into a rant: “We need the President to be able to put his ego aside and do his job. We need the President to not hold aid as a weapon and weaponize it, which is something he criticizes from other countries. We need the Congress of the United States to hear the call of the people not only of Puerto Rico but of other places that have been really dealing with very difficult situations coming from disasters that are a result of climate change.”

“But most of all, we need the President to develop a heart. This man is heartless. This man is vengeful. This man racially discriminates against people that are not like him, and he is willing to let people starve, to let people die. So we need the American people to get on the phone, call your senators, call your Congresspeople, and let them know that the situation in Puerto Rico is not as it was before, thank God, but we still need a lot of help to stand up and move forward and we need the American people to understand that there’s a difference between the money that we needed to pick up debris and to deal with the immediate aftermath, and the money, the Community Development Block Grant DR, the Disaster and Relief Fund. $1.5 billion would still have not hit the cities of San Juan or any other of the 77 additional municipalities. But mostly we need the President to stop lying, to stand up, to assume responsibility, and to have the courage to say, look, I haven’t done right by Puerto Rico. I’m going to start today.”

Back in June 2018, Cruz accused the President Trump’s administration of looking away “from its legal imperative and violating the human rights of the people of Puerto Ricco.”

“There’s a moral imperative and a legal imperative. It is clear the Trump administration has looked away from its legal imperative. But where the government has failed, the American people have risen to the occasion. We have continued to have volunteers come in … Look, President Trump tweets about the crack of dawn and he hasn’t even tweeted one time to say look, I mourn with the people of Puerto Rico. So this total neglect has to be called upon. The United Nations says that when people are denied their right to access to basic human services—like electric power, like water, like food, like appropriate medical care—that it is a violation of human rights.”” she said on MSNBC.

In October 2017, Mediate reported that, after the President tweeted that Puerto Rico will not receive federal aid “forever” and that the island was a “disaster” before Hurricane Maria hit, Cruz appeared on CNN with host Don Lemon and stated that Trump had a “big mouth.”

“We have paid our dues, and there are American citizens here in Puerto Rico. This is a nation. There’s a big disconnect between the big heart of the volunteers and the people that are here working on the ground and, frankly, the big mouth of the President of the United States. It continues to add insult to injury.” she said.

New Book Reveals Trump And Melania Have Very Long Private Dinners Together

A new book sheds some light on the private life of Americas first family and it suggests that, while President Trump and First Lady Melania appear to rarely have time to spend together, they actually have very long private dinners during their trips to Mar-a-Lago.

According to the book titled, “Mar-a-Lago: Inside the Gates of Power at Donald Trump’s Presidential Palace” by author Laurence Leamer, part-time Palm Beach, Florida resident, the first couple spend lengthy dinners together, sometimes lasting over “three hours” when the Trumps are at the resort on the weekends, per CNN on Monday.

“What married couple spends three hours together alone at dinner?” Leamer asked. “They’re there so long, other people are leaving and they’re just … there.”

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump arrive at the National African American History Month Reception at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 21, 2019. REUTERS/Jim Young

“They dine for hours,” he added. “He likes a small table, a four-person table, so people can come over to say ‘hello’ but there’s not enough room to invite people to join.”

Leamer continued, “It’s extraordinary for what a public personality Trump is that part of him is very private, and so is she. I am talking in the sense he and she don’t necessarily like interlopers. Trump has always got to be the center of attention, so if you go to someone else’s party, he’s not always going to be that.”

“She [Melania] is on his arm, spectacularly dressed, even if just for the members to see,” Leamer said. “Mar-a-Lago is the one place where he feels truly relaxed, he feels comfortable there — and I think that’s true of her as well.”

“Those two will go and sit at dinner, and they are in the most in-depth conversations, and will talk and sit there for hours, literally,” a White House official shared with the outlet.

At one point during the interview, Leamer spoke about how First Lady Melania uses her time at the resort as a place to relax away from the chaos in Washington.

“She has a long history with Palm Beach, yes, but she stays to herself for most part,” Leamer explained. “All these ladies in Palm Beach, they go to Worth Avenue to shop, they dress up and they pay these exorbitant prices for clothes and things, and that’s part of the scene. That’s what they do here, that’s the life. But not Melania Trump.”

Meghan McCain Comes Clean On ‘The View’ During a Heated Argument: ‘Trump Will Be Re-Elected In 2020’

It’s not very unusual for things to heat up between the ladies of “The View” but this time after it was questioned whether the American people understand socialism, co-host Meghan McCain concluded that Democratic socialists are the reason President Donald Trump is going to get re-elected in 2020.

Tuesday’s “The View” consisted of a fiery discussion, starting with the hosts talking about a poll which shows that most Americans are okay with a homosexual candidate, but fewer Americans being okay with a socialist president.

This discussion quickly turned into co-host Behar wondering if Americans understand the meaning of socialism which McCain swiped back at, saying, “People are smart.” Behar countered that she disagrees socialism is a “bad thing” ahead of 2020.

“I miss Whoopi [Goldberg] when she’s not here,” an exasperated McCain said.

Then, the heat continued dialing up.

“I’m just trying to explain to you the other side … and why Democratic Socialists could be leading you toward the path of Trump getting re-elected,” McCain said.

“Instead, I’m told I don’t understand what Democratic Socialism is. I assure you, Joy, I do.” she added.

During Tuesday’s show, there was another segment where Behar claimed former President Barack Obama’s presidency was “completely scandal-free,” prompting McCain to swipe back.

McCain blasted the idea of Obama’s administration viewed as “pristine, scandal-free, perfect administration that never did anything wrong.”

When Hostin also claimed Obama’s administration was “scandal-free,” McCain then reiterated her warning how President Donald Trump would get re-elected.

“I’m telling you. It is how we got Trump and it’s how you’re going to re-elect him,” McCain said. “And when he’s re-elected, which at this point, I believe he is going to be, I hope you’ll listen to the points that I have given you.”

DNC Chair Tom Perez Calls All Trump Supporters ‘Cowards’ And Warns That ‘They Will Be Judged Harshly’

DNC Chair Tom Perez slammed Republican lawmakers and everyone who’ve supported President Trump as “cowards” who “will be judged harshly.”

The head of the Democratic National Committee dropped his name-calling on Monday during a talk at Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management, calling out those who haven’t challenged President Trump on his agenda.

“They are cowardly,” Perez said during a conversation on “Progressive Policy in the Trump Era.”

“History will not only judge Donald Trump harshly, it will judge [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell, [former House Speaker] Paul Ryan and all the other cowards who refuse to stand up to this president and allowed the party of Lincoln to die,” he told Dean David Weil.

“They will be judged harshly, because whatever he says, goes right now,” the former Obama-era secretary of labor added, as he also took a shot at another Republican senator.

“Look at Lindsey Graham – it’s pathetic,” he said, as reported by Townhall.

Perez recently caught the media’s attention when he announced a ban on Fox News from hosting any Democratic Party presidential debates, pointing to “the inappropriate relationship between President Trump, his administration and Fox News.”

Not long after he was elected as DNC chairman, Perez unloaded in a foul-mouthed rant that Donald Trump “didn’t win the election.”

During his Monday talk, Perez continued to slam the President as he gave his thoughts about the 2016 election.

Townhall reported, Dean David Weil also asked Perez to analyze the 2016 election a bit more and explain to the audience how Trump became president. Perez admitted that the Democrats didn’t do their part in organizing and maintaining President Obama supporters in swing states. Yet, he added that voters were unfortunately persuaded by Trump’s lofty promises that he’d bring their jobs back.

“He said he had your back but actually he had a knife in your back.”

“He twisted it again last week,” complained Perez, blaming Republicans for not opposing President Trump’s plan to end the Affordable Care Act while they passed “the most reckless tax cut in American history” last year.

His comments Monday on the “cowards” who support Trump sparked a huge backlash on Twitter where Trump supporters dared Perez to “bring it on.”


“Cowardly? Trump has to fight for everything he does, and we’re fighting right along with him. Trump is not a coward, and neither are his supporters. As far as being judged harshly… for what? For protecting American citizens, and trying to MAGA?” said another tweet.

DHS Officials Are Warning That An ‘Illegal Immigration Superhighway’ Has Formed in Mexico & Could Bring Caravan Of 20,000 Migrants

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) continues to alarm the public about the crisis at the southern border, a crisis that now includes an “illegal immigrant superhighway” that could wreak havoc for United States immigration officials and their very limited resources.

DHS previously stated that more than 100,000 migrants were apprehended in March alone. But because the detention centers used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are at full capacity, Border Patrol was forced to release many thousands of immigrants into the United States.

The immigrants that’re not released on our soil are kept in ICE facilities where they often receive medical treatment. As many as 2,000 migrants receive medical attention per month, immigration officials reported.

The influx of immigrant families in March put a big strain on resources at our southern border, but it does not look like immigration officials are going to catch a break anytime soon.

One senior DHS official stated that immigrants have been barreling through Mexico from many Central American countries en route to the United States, telling the Washington Times, “The result is an illegal immigration superhighway that’s flowing through Mexico.”

Mexican officials echoed that sentiment, noting that a new caravan of around 20,000 immigrants is currently on its way to their north border.

This “superhighway” is one of the most important reasons the President announced foreign aid cuts to Central America for putting forward more effort to deter immigrants. White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney stated that he wants to see more effort put forward by these countries to help the United States address the crisis at the border.

“There’s a lot of good ways to help solve this problem [at the border]. Congress could do it, but they’re not going to. Mexico could help us do it, they need to do a little more. Honduras could do more. Nicaragua could do more. El Salvador could do more. And if we’re going to give these countries hundreds of millions of dollars, we would like them to do more.”

On Monday morning, President Donald Trump made a similar call to Democrats on Twitter, asking them to work with Republicans to reform the asylum process in the United States so that migrants are not just released into the country when detention facilities reach capacity.

Other Republicans echoed President Donald Trump’s points, calling for Democrats to take a serious look at our southern border and make the right decision.

Trump Threatens Mexico:’We Will Close The Damn Border’ If They Don’t Stop The Caravans

During a Thursday night rally in Michigan, President Trump threatened to close the southern border if the Mexican government doesn’t take more active measures to quell the migrant flood.

The President lamented the massive rise in the arrival of migrants at our border with Mexico, declaring, “Mexico could stop them so easy. … If they don’t, it’s going to cost them a hell of a lot of money. … We will close the damn border.”

This was the President repeating the threat he made in his Thursday tweet in light of new numbers from Customs and Border Patrol, which show tens of thousands of migrants arriving at our border with Mexico while immigration centers are already filled at maximum capacity.

“Mexico is doing NOTHING to help stop the flow of illegal immigrants to our Country. They are all talk and no action. Likewise, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador have taken our money for years, and do Nothing. The Dems don’t care, such BAD laws. May close the Southern Border!” posted President Trump.

President Trump also reiterated his threat to close the south border on Twitter Friday morning, saying Mexico makes “$100 billion a year” from the United States and has the strongest immigration laws anywhere in the world and therefore should “stop illegals from entering” the U.S. “through their country.”

CBP Commissioner Kevin McAleenan spoke to reporters and said the situation at the border is nearing a “breaking point,” adding, “CBP is facing an unprecedented humanitarian and border security crisis all along our Southwest border — and nowhere has that crisis manifested more acutely than here in El Paso.”

CBP added that they were on pace to have 100,000 apprehensions and encounters with migrants illegally entering our country, with the highest month in more than 10 years.

The commissioner also said that the situation is becoming so dire that migrants are not even being processed and instead directly released into the United States because there are no facilities to house all of them.

Many Officials say what makes the situation especially dangerous is that the illegal immigrants being arrested are migrants requesting asylum who are caught and released into America for months or even years before appearing before a judge.

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