We shouldn’t have to,” Trump told reporters. I just don’t see a pathway forward,” said Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a Trump ally, who said it was time for Trump to declare a national emergency. ‘HIS ONLY WAY OUT’Trump said his lawyers had told him he had the power to invoke national emergency powers to get his wall funded. “I have the absolute right to declare a national emergency,” Trump told reporters at the White House. Senator Joe Manchin, a moderate Democrat who has cultivated good relations with Trump, told reporters a national emergency declaration by Trump would be “wrong, but I think that’s his only way out” of the impasse.

Source: bd News24 January 11, 2019 01:07 UTC