WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump, facing the prospect of the longest U.S. government shutdown in history, is considering declaring a national emergency that would likely escalate a policy dispute with Democrats over his proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall into a court test of presidential power.
Reuters: As US shutdown ties record, Trump weighs emergency declaration
(FILES) In this file photo taken on Jan. 8, 2019, US President Donald Trump appears on a television screen in the Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC.
