Freedom Caucus members tell Trump to back off wall emergency

A core group of the hard-line House Freedom Caucus is urging President Donald Trump against the explosive step of declaring a national emergency to build his wall.

Multiple Republicans in the conservative group have privately raised their concerns with the Trump administration, fearing it would lead to a years-long legal standoff that Democrats could win while setting a dangerous precedent for the presidency, according to more than a dozen lawmakers and GOP aides. They want Trump to hold out for a deal with Democrats, regardless of how long the partial government shutdown drags on.

Trump’s possible pursuit of an emergency declaration on the border divided the caucus during an animated meeting Wednesday night, according to lawmakers who attended the meeting. Members wrestled with constitutional concerns. GOP Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan was reportedly particularly outspoken. Searching for an alternative, the group kicked around other, more legally sound ways for Trump to raise revenue for the wall.

“I do see the potential for national emergencies being used for every single thing that we face in the future where we can’t reach an agreement. That’s the slippery slope that I’m concerned about,” Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), a top Trump ally, told POLITICO on Thursday. “The administration is well aware of the ability to use national emergency [powers] and the reluctance to do so from House members.”

The president’s approach is putting House conservatives — who spent years railing against President Barack Obama for alleged executive overreach, particularly on immigration — in a serious bind. It’s also one of conservatives’ first battles in their new minority, where the once-powerful House Freedom Caucus now hold far less leverage in the House.

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Here is your invasion. Legally. With chain migration.

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IMHO, the Freedom Caucus issuing this opinion is telling the president that his political strategy is correct and don't blow it with the impatience of going the emergency funding route.

Force the Democrats to change their narrative. Force the Democrats to admit they're wrong. Force the Democrats to fund a border security SYSTEM, which includes a barrier of some kind.

You really should look to Sweden as the canary in the coal mine, that's our role in all this, I see the beginnings of all the shit that happened in Sweden happening in the US.

You will go down the same route if you do not protect your borders, arrest all the illegals, stop people like Soros from doing what they do, any means necessary.
And of course very hard punishment for those that hire illegals, so hard it will make a person think ten times before he even attempts to hire an illegal.

If not you'll go the same way as Sweden, though you guys will probably survive because you got guns, but your nation will in any case be ripped to shreds. From that anything can rise and probably will rise, all sorts of different states. Bad shit all around.

These Freedom cacas are dumb, they don't see what must be done.Don't just critisize the man for attempting solutions, give him a way to build that wall to protect your lands.

In trying to solve a problem, it may be best to look at the problem by adding another variable. That variable is the military. I'm sure that the military can be used to construct Constantine Wire, where it is needed, and to build it 20 feet high if need be. The cost's would be negligible, since it would be a temporary barrier until a more permanent solution could be implemented....

President Trump should station an additional 10000 troops on the border for building this temporary barrier and for aiding in border security...

Meadows and others should know DAMN WELL that if a Dem president wants to declare a National Emergency to advance a cause, NOTHING is going to stop him. Obama declared 12 of them I believe. We have many still in force. Absolute fear mongering is what Meadows and others are doing.

Oh ffs, this is stupid. How many times have you guys put up threads about the multiple national emergencies other presidents have called? And now it's only now a "slippery slope"? That's a weak excuse. I get it now though.... The Dems voted on a wall before, but only because they knew nobody would actually follow through at the time. Now that Trump is (so far) not backing down, they are flipping out like crackheads getting ready to lose a dealer. And the Republicans are starting to jump ship too, apparently.

I didn't say it. Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), a top Trump ally, said it.

Bullcrap. Here is the pussy fear mongering starting. Meadows and others should know DAMN WELL that if a Dem president wants to declare a National Emergency to advance a cause, NOTHING is going to stop him. Obama declared 12 of them I believe. We have many still in force. Absolute fear mongering is what Meadows and others are doing.

This is the one issue that really does qualify for an emergency and they are trying to stop it. I guess they initially thought Trump wouldn't follow through and now they panic like the Dems!

ALIENS DO NOT HAVE A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO IMMIGRATE TO THIS COUNTRY, ILLEGALLY OR LEGALLY. I think that was recently decided by Supreme Court. This fear mongering about the 2nd amendment is just that. Fear mongering. We do have a constitutional right to keep and bear arms and if some gun grabbing President tries to take them with a National Emergency declaration HE WILL BE SHOT DOWN BY SC on that.

Once again, NOTHING is going to stop a Dem president from doing what he wants to do, so take that "but" off the table. This is a crisis with real effects, disastrous effects and needs to be taken care of.

So, when all options are off the table, get it done.

Freedom Caucus, sounds like something Soros would fund.

If The Wall doesn't qualify as a National Emergency issue, I don't know what does.

We're losing half as many Americans a year as we did on average in the Vietnam War just from cruel murders by illegal aliens.

Those asshole politicians better get their heads screwed on straight or they will be known as an enemy to the American People.

Oh ffs, this is stupid. How many times have you guys put up threads about the multiple national emergencies other presidents have called? And now it's only now a "slippery slope"? That's a weak excuse. I get it now though.... The Dems voted on a wall before, but only because they knew nobody would actually follow through at the time. Now that Trump is (so far) not backing down, they are flipping out like crackheads getting ready to lose a dealer. And the Republicans are starting to jump ship too, apparently.

A core group of the hard-line House Freedom Caucus is urging President Donald Trump against the explosive step of declaring a national emergency to build his wall.

Multiple Republicans in the conservative group have privately raised their concerns with the Trump administration, fearing it would lead to a years-long legal standoff that Democrats could win while setting a dangerous precedent for the presidency, according to more than a dozen lawmakers and GOP aides. They want Trump to hold out for a deal with Democrats, regardless of how long the partial government shutdown drags on.

Trump’s possible pursuit of an emergency declaration on the border divided the caucus during an animated meeting Wednesday night, according to lawmakers who attended the meeting. Members wrestled with constitutional concerns. GOP Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan was reportedly particularly outspoken. Searching for an alternative, the group kicked around other, more legally sound ways for Trump to raise revenue for the wall.

“I do see the potential for national emergencies being used for every single thing that we face in the future where we can’t reach an agreement. That’s the slippery slope that I’m concerned about,” Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), a top Trump ally, told POLITICO on Thursday. “The administration is well aware of the ability to use national emergency [powers] and the reluctance to do so from House members.”

The president’s approach is putting House conservatives — who spent years railing against President Barack Obama for alleged executive overreach, particularly on immigration — in a serious bind. It’s also one of conservatives’ first battles in their new minority, where the once-powerful House Freedom Caucus now hold far less leverage in the House.

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A core group of the hard-line House Freedom Caucus is urging President Donald Trump against the explosive step of declaring a national emergency to build his wall.

Multiple Republicans in the conservative group have privately raised their concerns with the Trump administration, fearing it would lead to a years-long legal standoff that Democrats could win while setting a dangerous precedent for the presidency, according to more than a dozen lawmakers and GOP aides. They want Trump to hold out for a deal with Democrats, regardless of how long the partial government shutdown drags on.

Trump’s possible pursuit of an emergency declaration on the border divided the caucus during an animated meeting Wednesday night, according to lawmakers who attended the meeting. Members wrestled with constitutional concerns. GOP Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan was reportedly particularly outspoken. Searching for an alternative, the group kicked around other, more legally sound ways for Trump to raise revenue for the wall.

“I do see the potential for national emergencies being used for every single thing that we face in the future where we can’t reach an agreement. That’s the slippery slope that I’m concerned about,” Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), a top Trump ally, told POLITICO on Thursday. “The administration is well aware of the ability to use national emergency [powers] and the reluctance to do so from House members.”

The president’s approach is putting House conservatives — who spent years railing against President Barack Obama for alleged executive overreach, particularly on immigration — in a serious bind. It’s also one of conservatives’ first battles in their new minority, where the once-powerful House Freedom Caucus now hold far less leverage in the House.

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If The Wall doesn't qualify as a National Emergency issue, I don't know what does.

We're losing half as many Americans a year as we did on average in the Vietnam War just from cruel murders by illegal aliens.

Those asshole politicians better get their heads screwed on straight or they will be known as an enemy to the American People.