Wall cracked again
By Greg Sargent
Opinion writer
February 13 at 10:13 AM
... all of this is taking on the quality of an increasingly breathless effort to blow air into a balloon with a leak. The obvious play here is to make Trump feel as if he still has ways at his disposal to take forceful and decisive action and to take control of events, or at least to appear to be doing so ...
Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) and Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) are calling on Trump to declare a national emergency. The whole point of this is not merely to get Trump to do it, but also to create the impression that he has ways of acting decisively going forward ...
... Even if Trump did do this, legal challenges would likely delay construction until at least 2020. Republicans also quickly realized that Democrats can execute a procedural maneuver to force GOP senators to vote on Trump’s emergency declaration, which they are loath to do ...
... White House advisers are looking at using an executive order to shift money from various military flood-control and construction projects, including disaster relief funds. But .. even some inside the White House believe this will be deeply problematic politically and very vulnerable to court challenges ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/02/13/trumps-wall-lies-illusions-just-cracked-again/?utm_term=.e68f09ecd822
