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BREAKING: President Trump signs national emergency declaration to secure funding for border wall, Press Sec. Sanders says. nbcnews.to/2DGF771 
Speaker Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Schumer:
"This is plainly a power grab by a disappointed President, who has gone outside the bounds of the law to try to get what he failed to achieve in the constitutional legislative process."
"This is plainly a power grab by a disappointed President, who has gone outside the bounds of the law to try to get what he failed to achieve in the constitutional legislative process."
"I could do the wall over a longer period of time. I didn't need to do this, but I'd rather do it much faster," President Trump to @PeterAlexander on national emergency declaration to secure funding for border wall. nbcnews.to/2DGF771
@PeterAlexander President Trump in letter to House and Senate leadership:
"I have exercised my authority to declare a national emergency"
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"I have exercised my authority to declare a national emergency"
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