Emergency On The Border! Or… Emergency On The Border?

President Trump won the battle over his proposed border wall, but the war rages on. Despite Congress passing and the President signing a budget full of border security funds, including some for physical barriers, Trump declared a national emergency to tap into additional funds to build the wall his way.

Party Politics co-hosts Brandon Rottinghaus and Jay Aiyer discuss the implications of this order, the political blowback and legislative relations following this executive action.

NATIONAL TOPICS
-2020 Roundup! (Feel the Bern, Bill Weld enters Republican fray, Obamas not endorsing)
-New Jersey Attorney General looking into Trump's inauguration
-SCOTUS and the Census' question on citizenship
-Heather Nauert withdraws from UN ambassadorship
-Trump talks Venezuela
-Nobel Peace Prize for Trump? Japanese PM mum on his nomination

TEXAS TOPICS
-Senate poll has Beto O'Rourke close
-Angela Paxton files legislation to help her husband
-Kim Ogg is denied more prosecutors
-Butterfly habitat saved from wall by Congress

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