Courts weigh Trump’s plan to tap Pentagon for border wall
Posted May 17, 2019 02:14:43 AM.
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SAN FRANCISCO — President Donald Trump is moving fast to spend billions of dollars to build a wall on the Mexican border with money secured under his declaration of a national emergency, but he first must get past the courts.
On Friday, a federal judge in Oakland, California, will consider arguments in two cases that seek to block the White House from spending Defence and Treasury Department money for wall construction. California and 19 other states brought one lawsuit; the Sierra Club and Southern Border Communities Coalition brought the other.
Next week, a federal judge in the nation’s capital will consider a bid by the U.S. House of Representatives to prevent Trump from spending any Defence Department money for a border wall.
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Spagat reported from San Diego.
Daisy Nyugen And Elliot Spagat, The Associated Press
