Anger of American citizens from the White House

reporter 1222 — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 06:30:23 +0000

On Friday, President Trump vetoed a measure to block his national emergency declaration. The measure passed the House and Senate with bipartisan support. Numerous polls suggest Trump’s decision was popular among his Republican base. But his decision to use executive authority to fund a wall along the southern border is opposed by a clear majority of the public.

During his recent actions, Trump showed that the opinion of American citizens is not important to him. Since the onset of tension between the White House and the Congress over the provision of wall-payment on the Mexican border, Trump was well aware of public discontent over this issue. Polls in the United States also confirm this.

As Washington Post reported: That is reflected in six polls taken from early January to early March. By roughly a 2-to-1 margin, Americans oppose Trump’s decision to use emergency powers to build a border wall. That’s a wider margin than the Senate resolution to overturn Trump’s declaration of a national emergency, which passed 59 to 41.

The most recent poll on the issue comes from Monmouth University and was in the field between March 1 and 4. Monmouth found 65 percent of Americans disapproved of Trump “declaring a national emergency in order to use funding designated for the U.S. military to build a wall along the Mexican border.”

As noted above, other surveys conducted in the United States also show this. In January, Monmouth asked a similar question but didn’t include the part about “using designated military funds to pay for the wall.” Opinion barely budged between then and now. Disapproval now is 65 percent vs. 33 percent approval; then it was 64 to 34.

Across the months, questions with slightly different wording generated nearly identical results. Near the end of February, an NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll found 60 percent of registered voters disapproved of “Trump’s decision to declare a national emergency” “to build a wall of over 200 miles along the U.S.-Mexico border.”

Shortly before that, NPR-PBS NewHour-Marist found 61 percent who disapproved of “Trump declaring a national emergency to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.”

Looking to the beginning of February, CNN found 66 percent of respondents agreed Trump “should not declare a national emergency in order to build a wall along the border with Mexico.” And a Washington Post-ABC News poll from early January found an identical 66 percent who opposed “Trump using emergency powers to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.”

The Post-ABC poll question included language saying, “Presidents can declare a state of national emergency, giving them special powers to take action without approval from Congress.”

The emergency declaration is quite unpopular among Democrats and most independents, though it is favored by a majority of Republicans. In the most recent Monmouth poll, 93 percent of Democrats and 71 percent of independents disapproved of Trump declaring a national emergency, while 73 percent of Republicans approved.

Those opinions were largely consistent with January’s Monmouth poll, in which 93 percent of Democrats and 66 percent of independents disapproved while 71 percent of Republicans approved. Finally, the latest action by Donald Trump showed how false democracy is in USA. Trump’s disregard for the wishes of the majority of Americans shows this clearly.

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Trump announces deal to reopen government

reporter 1222 — Sat, 26 Jan 2019 08:30:31 +0000

President Donald Trump on Friday announced that a deal has been reached to end the shutdown and reopen the government.

The announcement came as the partial government shutdown stretched to 35 days, the longest in U.S. history.
President Donald Trump is expected to announce an agreement to temporarily reopen the federal government after the longest shutdown in U.S. history, according to multiple people familiar with the tentative deal.

The agreement, which has been hashed out with congressional leaders, would fund the government through Feb. 15 while negotiators work out a larger immigration and border security compromise, the sources said. The deal does not include funding for the border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. White House aides and others close to the process cautioned that state of play remains fluid, adding that Trump has been known to change his mind at the last minute.

The pending announcement comes as lawmakers of both parties are looking to the White House for guidance as they search for a way out of the 35-day partial shutdown. Trump has demanded $5.7 billion in funding for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, but Democrats have refused to budge.

A decision by Trump to embrace a continuing resolution to briefly reopen the government would mark a major reversal by the president, who has repeatedly rebuffed the idea. During a meeting last week with a bipartisan group of House lawmakers, Trump worried that he might not be able to get funding for his border wall if he agreed to reopen the government while negotiations continue.

“If I open it up, it’s going to be hard to shut down again,” Trump said, according to a person in the room.

Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, the No. 2 Senate Republican, said he was unsure what the president would say, but added that the president’s remarks could end the shutdown, “at least temporarily.”

“Hopefully he’ll say something that will give us a path forward,” Thune said on Friday afternoon.

Two Republican aides familiar with the discussions said they believed Trump might declare a national emergency to get funds for his wall if Democrats and Republicans can’t reach after briefly reopening the government.

A White House spokeswoman did not immediately respond to requests for comment, though some aides cautioned that the agreement was tentative.

The White House has been scrambling to come up with a new approach to ending the shutdown after the Senate on Thursday failed to pass Trump’s proposal to reopen the government. The offer would have given temporary legal protection to some undocumented immigrants in exchange for funding for a southern border wall. Only one Democrat voted for the measure, while six Republicans backed a competing Democratic plan to reopen the government through Feb. 8 in the latest signal that the GOP is eager to end the stalemate.

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, who met with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Friday and spoke to Trump on Thursday, said a series of airport delays that have rippled across the country are “signs of things to come” during the shutdown. He’s been urging the president to endorse the idea of briefly reopening the government to have a three-week immigration debate.

Yet a similar proposal from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was killed in the Senate on Thursday under pressure from the White House to oppose it. GOP Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah argued at a Republican party lunch in favor of the offering, according to a person familiar with the lunch, but Vice President Mike Pence stumped for the president’s plan and GOP unity instead.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday postponed a scheduled press conference as House leaders waited to see what the president would announce. Senators have been told to stay in Washington. Though the House is no longer in session, many House Democrats have decided to stay in town as news of a potential deal spreads. If the Senate acts on Friday, the House could potentially approve a continuing resolution by Saturday, Democratic sources said.

The Senate opened at noon on Friday, but McConnell planned to speak later in the day after the president’s announcement.

On Friday morning, a wave of airport delays hit the East Coast, which some saw as a visible sign that pressure was mounting on the White House to end the shutdown.

“The President has been briefed and we are monitoring the ongoing delays at some airports. We are in regular contact with officials at the Department of Transportation and the FAA,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said earlier Friday.

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