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Congress’ ‘think tank’ green lights Trump emergency wall move washex.am/2N8gTqx
President Trump has an unlikely ally in his move to declare a national emergency, freeing up money to build a border wall despite bipartisan opposition — Capitol Hill’s own think tank.
Despite promises from Democratic leaders to sue to stop Trump, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service has determined that the move may be legal and effective.
In its most recent report on the border wall, CRS said Congress actually wrote the legal path for Trump to follow to tap into Pentagon construction money to build the wall, and a new analysis of that report confirms that Trump appears to have the green light from Capitol Hill.
