Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) urged President Donald Trump to reopen the federal government for a short period to see if a deal can be reached with Democrats before declaring a national emergency over border security. The president told reporters on Friday that he wasn’t planning to make a declaration “right now” but that he would if he had to. Some Republicans who railed against executive overreach during President Barack Obama’s administration now fear that a future Democratic president could similarly declare a national emergency and fund projects without congressional approval. “If today the national emergency is border security, tomorrow the national emergency might be climate change,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said this week. “What Lindsey Graham just told the president is a great place to start,” Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.)

Source: Huffington Post January 13, 2019 16:07 UTC