Trump has threatened to call a national emergency to bypass Congress to fund his wall – but is it legal, and would it work? What is a national emergency – and could Trump use one to build his wall? Over the past week, Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to declare a national emergency if he does not get funding for his US-Mexico border wall. He has threatened to declare the national emergency to build a wall along a stretch of the US-Mexico border, and has provided no further detail. George W Bush declared a national emergency after the 9/11 attacks, and Barack Obama did the same during the swine flu outbreak in 2009.

Source: The Guardian January 10, 2019 18:00 UTC