Trump Likely to Delay Decision on Crisis Powers Beyond Speech
- Declaring emergency may allow him to reopen government
- Trump and Democrats to give dueling primetime speeches
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President Donald Trump’s conservative allies are urging him to declare a national emergency to build his proposed border wall, though he isn’t expected to do so in his address to the nation Tuesday evening.
The emerging strategy is now seen by some of his allies as the president’s best way to get his wall on the U.S.-Mexico border -- a key campaign promise. The move could also offer a path out of a political crisis created after he shut down much of the government because Congress refused to spend more than $5 billion to build the wall.