At the core of each lawsuit is the argument that Trump is circumventing Congress to fund the wall along US-Mexico border by declaring emergency.. Constitution assigns Congress the power of the purse, and no president has ever tried to use emergency powers to fund chosen project..…

.- Mexico border, after Congress, in its new spending bill, denied him the money to build it... ..…

President Donald Trump is prepared to issue the first veto of his term action he took to secure funding for his desired wall along US-Mexico border. The West Wing is digging in for fights on multiple fronts as the effort to go around Congress to fund his long-promised border wall faces..…