Sixteen US states sue Donald TrumpUS President Donald Trump. Several Republican senators have decried the emergency declaration, saying it establishes a dangerous precedent and amounts to executive overreach. It added that Trump had "veered the country toward a constitutional crisis of his own making." "Congress has repeatedly rebuffed the president's insistence to fund a border wall, recently resulting in a record 35-day partial government shutdown over the border wall dispute," the document read. Friday's declaration enables the president to divert funds from the Pentagon's military construction budget and other sources.

Source: Standard Digital February 19, 2019 01:52 UTC