The White House has begun laying the groundwork for a declaration of national emergency to build President Trump's border wall, including searching for unused money in the Army Corps of Engineers budget, two people with knowledge of the preparations said Thursday...
The White House has begun laying the groundwork for a declaration of national emergency to build President Trump's border wall, a move certain to set off a firestorm of opposition in Congress and the courts but one that could pave the way for an end to the three-week government shutdown.
Amid the stalemate, the White House has been laying the groundwork for a declaration of a national emergency to build Trump's border wall, eyeing various pots of unused money, including funds in the Army Corps of Engineers budget that had been directed toward flood-control projects in areas affected by recent natural disasters.
The statement comes as the White House has begun laying the groundwork for an emergency declaration, including searching for unused money in the Army Corps of Engineers budget, according to two people with knowledge of the preparations.
The White House has been laying the groundwork for an emergency declaration, which is feared by lawmakers in both parties.
The Sino-British Joint Declaration in 1984 laid the groundwork for the City's demolition.
Whereas the new Obama administration is making steps to move in a more progressive human rights based direction, the groundwork for the drafting of the Political Declaration has taken place with State Department employees who took their direction from the previous administration and haven't yet been presented with a new agenda.
Anticipating a Palestinian unilateral declaration of statehood, the Israelis are laying the groundwork for a "unilateral separation," as they call it: us here and them there.
In fighting against France, the country that had launched the Declaration of the Rights of Man, the British were laying the groundwork for a permanently counter-revolutionary empire that would keep those rights low on the agenda.
Dennis Ross, the State Department's envoy to the Middle East, will try to lay the groundwork for what Israeli and Palestinian officials describe as anything from a joint declaration of general principles for making peace to an ambitious framework accord for a final settlement to the half-century-old conflict.
Pressure by Home Rulers on the British contributed to the drafting of the Montagu Declaration in 1917 by Edwin Samuel Montagu, secretary of state for India, which in turn laid the groundwork for political reforms in India instituted by Britain after World War I.
