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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THuRSDAY, JANuARY 10, 2019
Trump threatens emergency declaration ahead of border visit
By CATHERINE LUCEY,
LISA MASCARO and
LAURIE KELLMAN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Pres-
ident Donald Trump threat-
ened today to declare a
national emergency to cir-
cumvent Congress if he
can’t reach a deal with Dem-
ocrats to fund his promised
border wall. He headed to
the U.S.-Mexico border to
draw further attention to his
case after negotiations with
lawmakers blew up.
The partial government
shutdown dragged into a
20th day with hundreds of
thousands of federal work-
ers off the job or working
without pay as the wall fight
persisted.
Asked about a national
emergency
declaration,
Trump said as he left the
White House for Texas,
“I’m not prepared to do that
yet, but if I have to I will.”
He contends such a decla-
ration would allow him to
direct the military to begin
wall construction.
“So we’re either going
to have a win, make a com-
promise — because I think
a compromise is a win
for everybody — or I will
declare a national emer-
gency,” he said.
It’s not clear what a com-
promise might entail. Trump
says he won’t reopen the
government without money
for the wall. Democrats say
they favor measures to bol-
ster border security but
oppose the long, impregna-
ble wall that Trump envi-
sions. He is asking $5.7 bil-
lion for wall construction.
Trump’s comments came
a day after he walked out of
a negotiating meeting with
congressional leaders — “I
said bye-bye,” he tweeted
AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
Union members and other federal employees rally for an end to the partial government shutdown today at AFL-CIO
headquarters in Washington, D.C.
soon after — as efforts to
end the partial government
shutdown fell into deeper
disarray. Affected federal
workers face lost paychecks
on Friday, and more people
are touched every day by
the rollback of government
services.
Putting the standoff in
personal terms, the presi-
dent tweeted before leav-
ing for Texas: “The Opposi-
tion Party & the Dems know
we must have Strong Border
Security, but don’t want to
give ‘Trump’ another one of
many wins!”
In McAllen, Texas,
Trump will visit a border
patrol station for a round-
table discussion on immi-
gration and border security
and will get a briefing. But
he has expressed his own
doubts that his appearance
and remarks will change any
minds as he seeks money for
the wall that has been his
signature promise since his
presidential campaign.
McAllen is located in the
Rio Grande Valley, the busi-
est part of the border for ille-
gal border crossings.
The White House meet-
ing in the Situation Room
ended after just 14 minutes.
Democrats said they asked
Trump to reopen the govern-
ment but he told them if he
did they wouldn’t give him
money for the wall. Repub-
licans said Trump posed a
direct question to House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi: If
he opened the government,
would she fund the wall?
She said no.
Senate Democratic leader
Chuck Schumer said Trump
slammed his hand on the
table. But Trump, who
handed out candy at the start
of the meeting, disputed that
characterization. He said he
“didn’t smash the table” but
“should have.”
One result was certain:
The shutdown plunged into
new territory with no end-
game in sight. The Dem-
ocrats see the idea of the
long wall as ineffective and
even immoral. Trump sees
it as an absolute necessity
to stop what he calls a cri-
sis of illegal immigration,
drug-smuggling and human
trafficking at the border.
Trump also went to Capi-
tol Hill Wednesday, seeking
to soothe jittery Republican
lawmakers. He left a Repub-
lican lunch boasting of “a
very, very unified party,”
but GOP senators have been
publicly uneasy as the stand-
off ripples across the lives
of Americans and interrupts
the economy.
During the lunch, Trump
discussed the possibility
of a sweeping immigration
compromise with Demo-
crats to protect some immi-
grants from deportation but
provided no clear strategy
or timeline for resolving the
standoff, according to sena-
tors in the private session.
GOP unity was tested
when the House passed a
bipartisan spending bill,
240-188, to reopen one shut-
tered department, Treasury,
to ensure that tax refunds
and other financial services
continue. Eight Republicans
joined Democrats in voting,
defying the plea to stick with
the White House.
There was growing con-
cern about the toll the shut-
down is taking on every-
day Americans, including
disruptions in payments
to farmers and trouble for
home buyers who are seek-
ing
government-backed
mortgage loans — “seri-
ous stuff,” according to
Sen. John Thune of South
Dakota, the No. 2 Senate
Republican.
Some Republicans were
concerned about Trump’s
talk of declaring a national
emergency at the border,
seeing that as unprecedented
interference with the right of
Congress to allocate fund-
ing except in the most dire
circumstances.
“I prefer that we get this
resolved the old-fashioned
way,” Thune said.
Democrats said before
the White House meeting
that they would ask Trump
to accept an earlier biparti-
san bill that had money for
border security but not the
wall. Pelosi warned that the
effects of hundreds of thou-
sands of lost paychecks
would begin to have an
impact across the economy.
“The president could
end the Trump shutdown
and re-open the government
today, and he should,” Pelosi
said.
Tuesday night, speak-
ing to the nation from the
Oval Office for the first
time, Trump argued that the
wall was needed to resolve
a security and humanitar-
ian “crisis.” He blamed ille-
gal immigration for what he
said was a scourge of drugs
and violence in the U.S. and
asked: “How much more
American blood must we
shed before Congress does
its job?”
Democrats in response
accused Trump appealing to
“fear, not facts” and manu-
facturing a border crisis for
political gain.
In
an
off-the-re-
cord lunch with televi-
sion anchors ahead of his
speech, Trump suggested
his aides had pushed him to
give the address and travel
to the border and that he
personally did not believe
either would make a differ-
ence, according to two peo-
ple familiar with the meet-
ing. But one person said it
was unclear whether Trump
was serious or joking. The
people familiar with the
meeting insisted on ano-
nymity because they were
not authorized to discuss
the meeting publicly.
WORLD IN BRIEF
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Pompeo repudiates Obama
Mideast policy, takes aim at
Iran in speech
CAIRO — U.S. Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo delivered a scathing rebuke of
the Obama administration’s Mideast pol-
icies today, accusing the former president
of “misguided” and “wishful” thinking that
diminished America’s role in the region,
harmed its longtime friends and emboldened
its main foe: Iran.
In a speech to the American University
in Cairo, Pompeo unloaded on President
Donald Trump’s predecessor, saying he was
naive and timid when confronted with chal-
lenges posed by the revolts that convulsed
the Middle East, including Egypt, beginning
in 2011.
Pompeo laid the blame notably on a
vision outlined by President Barack Obama
in a speech he gave in Cairo in 2009 in which
he spoke of “a new beginning” for U.S. rela-
tions with countries in the Arab and Muslim
world.
The speech came on the third leg of a
nine-nation Mideast tour aimed at reassur-
ing America’s Arab partners that the Trump
administration is not walking away from
the region amid confusion and concern over
plans to withdraw U.S. forces from Syria.
Former Obama administration officials
rejected Pompeo’s assertions as petty, politi-
cal and weak. They said the speech pandered
to authoritarian leaders and ignored rights
violations that Obama had called out.
Bomb-laden rebel drone kills
6 at Yemen military parade
SANAA, Yemen — A bomb-laden drone
launched by Yemen’s Shiite rebels exploded
over a military parade today for the Sau-
di-led coalition, killing at least six people
in a brazen attack threatening an uneasy
U.N.-brokered peace in the Arab world’s
poorest nation.
The attack at the Al-Anad Air Base
showed the unwillingness of Yemen’s Houthi
rebels to halt fighting in the civil war, even
if it doesn’t violate a peace deal reached last
month in Sweden between them and Yemen’s
internationally recognized government.
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Liberal lawmakers challenge
Trump with drug cost
competition legislation
WASHINGTON — Challenging the
Trump administration on a top consumer
issue, leading congressional liberals are
proposing legislation that would radically
reduce U.S. prescription drug bills by link-
ing prices to lower costs in other countries.
The legislation set to be introduced
today has little chance of becoming law
under a divided government. But it could
put Republicans on the defensive by echo-
ing themes and ideas that President Don-
ald Trump has embraced at one time or
another. The common denominator is that
people in the United States shouldn’t have
to pay more for critical medications than
do people in other economically advanced
countries.
The Trump administration has put for-
ward its own plan for reducing drug prices,
but industry analysts have seen little impact
so far.
The new legislation was coming from
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Eli-
jah Cummings, D-Md. Cummings leads the
House Oversight and Government Reform
Committee, which is expected to take a
major role on drug pricing issues.
The lawmakers want to open up generic
competition to patent-protected U.S. brand-
name drugs that are deemed “excessively
priced,” allow Medicare to directly negotiate
with drugmakers, and let consumers import
lower-priced medications from Canada.
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The Houthi attack near the southern port
city of Aden with a new drone variant also
raised more questions about Iran’s alleged
role in arming the rebels with drone and bal-
listic missile technology, something long
denied by Tehran despite researchers and
U.N. experts linking the weapons to the
Islamic Republic.
The assault shocked the pro-govern-
ment troops, who carried away the dead and
wounded, their fatigues stained with blood.
All the victims were government forces,
officials said.
The Houthis immediately claimed the
attack in the southern province of Lahj at a
base where U.S. special forces once led their
own drone war against Yemen’s al-Qaida
branch.
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