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The United States Congress is the
bicameral
legislature of the
Federal government of the
United States. The legislature consists of two chambers: the
Senate and the
House of Representatives.
The Congress meets in the
United States Capitol in
Washington, D.C. Both senators and representatives are chosen through
direct election, though vacancies in the Senate may be filled by a
gubernatorial appointment. Congress has 535 voting members: 435
Representatives and 100 Senators.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress
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January/February:
Why the GOP Congress Will Stop Trump from
Going Too Far
The coming resistance from Republican lawmakers who hate Trump, fear executive
overreach—or both.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/januaryfebruary-2017/why-the-gop-congress-will-stop-trump-from-going-too-far/
March 23: Trump's trips are expensive. Can
Congress step in?
Trump has spent about half his weekends since the Inauguration at Mar-a-Lago,
his residence and exclusive club in Palm Beach, Florida. Those trips include
some diplomacy (at times in full view of guests), other meetings and
quite a bit of golf. Trump's also made a few stray trips to his other
properties, including a night at his new hotel just down the street from the
White House and a "mini cabinet meeting" at the Trump National Golf Club outside
D.C. Meanwhile, Trump's wife, Melania, is still living at Trump Tower in New
York City with their young son, Barron.
... With the White House's "budget blueprint" out, those frequent, expensive
trips have raised eyebrows.
https://www.marketplace.org/2017/03/23/business/make-me-smart-kai-and-molly/blog-trumps-trips-are-expensive-can-congress-step
July 29:
Trump Threatens Congressional Health
Insurance Benefits
Tweet may be prelude to rescinding employer contribution for members
“If a new HealthCare Bill is not approved quickly,” Trump tweeted. “BAILOUTS for
Insurance Companies and BAILOUTS for Members of Congress will end very soon!”
https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/trump-threatens-congressional-health-insurance-benefits
August 7:
5 Steps
Republicans In Congress Are Taking To Trump-Proof The Government
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/fivepoints/trump-republicans-congress-power
April 13:
Under a proposal expected to be
introduced in the Senate very soon, President Trump would get a blank check from
Congress to
go to war virtually anywhere on the planet.
https://www.aclu.org/blog/executive-branch/dont-let-congress-give-trump-blank-check-declare-worldwide-war
August 16:
Democrats in Congress Explore
Creating an Expert Panel on Trump’s Mental Health
There is also a bill aimed at establishing a “commission on presidential
capacity”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/democrats-in-congress-explore-creating-an-expert-panel-on-trump-rsquo-s-mental-health/
October 16:
Trump's Executive Actions May Mean
More Headaches For Struggling Congres
"Every time you buck some issue over to their plate, you blow the place up,"
said Sarah Binder, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who specializes
in Congress. "And Congress is not a well-oiled machine, so disrupting the agenda
and putting more things on their lap — issues which are really wedge issues
within the Republican Party ... it's almost mind-boggling to me that a president
who doesn't see himself as part of the party in Congress puts them back in that
situation."
https://www.npr.org/2017/10/16/557650672/trumps-executive-actions-may-mean-more-headaches-for-struggling-congress
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January 21: Senate delays its August
recess
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/senate-delays-its-august-recess/
March 23: Congress Ignores Trump's
Priorities for Science Funding
Nearly every science agency stands to get more money under a spending bill that
avoids proposed cuts from the White House.
Trump first announced his funding priorities for 2018 in March of last year, and
it was just as many researchers had feared. His administration’s proposal called
for significant boosts in military and border-security spending and historically
large
cuts for science and health agencies, particularly the Environmental
Protection Agency and the National Institutes of Health, and climate-research
programs across the government.
Congress
ignored those priorities as it negotiated funding for fiscal year 2017,
declining to get a head start on the president’s cuts. The federal spending bill
passed and signed into law by Trump last May didn’t include significant cuts to
science, technology, and health agencies, and even provided some substantial
increases to some.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/03/trump-science-budget/556229/
April 1: Will GOP Congress Force Trump To
Stop Huffing And Puffing?
The headline above might make you think this is about Donald Trump's level of
cardio fitness. It's not. It's about his budget bluster and attempts at fiscal
despotism.
In recent weeks, Trump has shown an increasingly willful disregard of the laws
and norms that govern almost everything the federal government does on taxing
and spending.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stancollender/2018/04/01/will-gop-congress-force-trump-to-stop-huffing-and-puffing/#653696a11508
April 14:
Donald Trump Ordered Syria Strike Based on a Secret Legal Justification Even
Congress Can’t See
On Friday night, President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military to
conduct a bombing attack against the government of Syria without congressional
authorization. How can this be constitutional, given the fact that Article I,
Section 8 of America’s founding document declares that “the Congress shall have
Power … To declare War”?
The deeply bizarre and alarming answer is that Trump almost certainly does have
some purported legal justification provided to him by the Justice Department’s
Office of Legal Counsel — but no one else, including Congress, can read it.
https://theintercept.com/2018/04/14/donald-trump-ordered-syria-strike-based-on-a-secret-legal-justification-even-congress-cant-see/
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April 25: How Congressional Republicans Have
Neutered the Trump Agenda
When political scientists assess a president’s legislative influence, they focus
on his ability to set the lawmaking agenda and to secure policy outcomes that
align with his preferences. During the 115th Congress, the president has failed
at both.
Observers of Congress have long recognized that legislative power lies not only
in the ability to influence vote outcomes, but also in the ability to decide
what issues even make it to a vote.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/04/trump-agenda-neutered-by-republican-congress/
April 30: : Trump
pushes for congressional term limits
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/30/donald-trump-stance-on-congressional-term-limits-560641
May 15: Senate Republicans urge Mitch
McConnell to cancel August recess over funding, nominees
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/16-senate-republicans-urge-mitch-mcconnell-to-cancel-august-recess-over-funding-nominees
May 16: McConnell May Cancel August Recess
to Keep Democrats From Going Home to Campaign
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/mcconnell-may-cancel-recess-to-keep-dems-off-campaign-trail.html
May 18: Trump missed Congress’s deadline for
getting a NAFTA deal done. Now what?
The next Congress — which could have a lot more Democrats —might be calling the
shots.
https://www.vox.com/2018/5/18/17368194/trump-nafta-congress-lighthizer-ryan
May 18: Another defeat for Trump in Congress
as GOP infighting scuttles farm bill
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-farm-bill-20180518-story.html
May 22: The FBI and Justice Department Will
'Review' Classified Russia Probe Details With Congressional Leaders
The agreement came after President Donald Trump made an
extraordinary demand that the Justice Department investigate whether the FBI
infiltrated his presidential campaign. It’s unclear exactly what the members
will be allowed to review or if the Justice Department will be providing any
documents to Congress.
http://time.com/5286452/fbi-justice-review-donald-trump-russia-probe/
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May 22: Growing backlash in Congress to
easing sanctions against ZTE
Senate panel OKs bill to tighten security reviews of Chinese tech deals
The Senate Banking Committee unanimously approved legislation on Tuesday that
would tighten national-security reviews of Chinese technology deals by the
interagency Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., strengthen export
controls and prohibit the Trump administration from lifting stiff penalties
imposed on ZTE.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/growing-backlash-in-congress-to-easing-sanctions-against-zte-2018-05-22
May 22: Congress passes ‘right-to-try’
measure, sending hard-fought bill to Trump’s desk
Patients with life-threatening conditions could soon have a new way to ask drug
makers for medicines the Food and Drug Administration hasn’t yet approved, after
the House on Tuesday voted to approve a version of “right-to-try” legislation.
The House passed the legislation 250-169. Now, the measure awaits a signature
from President Trump, who repeatedly and passionately
supported the measure and is expected
to sign the legislation into law. The Senate had already passed this version of
the legislation last August.
https://www.statnews.com/2018/05/22/house-vote-right-to-try/
May 22:
https://www.fox25boston.com/news/politics/congress-delivers-pair-of-bipartisan-bills-to-trump/754798906
May 22: Congress’s prison reform bill,
explained
The First Step Act has Trump’s support — but faces some Democratic opposition.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/5/22/17377324/first-step-act-prison-reform-congress
May 22: Congress rebels against Trump’s
Middle East war secrecy
Fed up with increased restrictions on information and less on-the-ground access,
some Democrats are seeking more transparency regarding the Donald Trump
administration’s military operations throughout the region.
https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2018/05/congress-rebels-trump-middle-east-war-secrecy.html
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May 23:
If Congress won't protect FBI and Justice from Trump, then we should
America’s greatness does not stem from the fact that every now and then its
idiotic leaders send the U.S. military to fight politically ill-conceived and
under-prosecuted wars without giving it maximum resources and then expect it to
do wonders and hide its resultant predicaments. The greatness stems from
America’s commitment to the rule of law and due process.
Nobody is above the law in America, not even a president. The DOJ and the FBI
discharge their duties to America in an apolitical and a nonpartisan way. Too
bad for Trump, they are no longer the DOJ of John Mitchell and the FBI of J.
Edgar Hoover. Today, both these agencies are the jewels of America’s crown of
the rule of law. And that’s exactly what bothers Trump so much that he has
declared a war on them.
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/opinion/columnists/siddique-malik/2018/05/23/if-congress-wont-protect-fbi-and-justice-trump-then-we-should/637026002/
May 23: Congress OKs Trump bid to widen
private care at besieged VA
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/congress-track-expanded-private-care-troubled-va-55383806
May 24: Congressional Republicans Frustrated
By Trump's 'Abuse' of Trade Powers
Congressional Republicans on Thursday slammed President Donald Trump on account
of his latest target for tariffs — automobile imports.
Citing national security, Trump has launched an investigation of automobile
imports under the same authority, Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act, that
he used earlier this year to impose wide-ranging steel and aluminum tariffs.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch
called the latest move "deeply misguided." In March, congressional
Republicans had a similar response to the president's announcement of the
sweeping steel and aluminum tariffs of 25 percent and 10 percent, respectively,
condemning the move, but taking little action to prevent their implementation
aside from issuing press releases and urging the president to reconsider.
https://www.weeklystandard.com/haley-byrd/congressional-republicans-frustrated-by-trumps-abuse-of-trade-powers
May 24: Trump's plans for immigration,
infrastructure meet swift resistance in Congress
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-state-of-the-union-congress-20180131-story.html
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May 24: Congress is relieved after Trump
cancels summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un
Some Republican lawmakers saw the meeting as potentially treacherous or doomed
to fail and expressed suspicion about Kim's intentions for coming to the table.
Some Democrats, however, worried about whether Trump had a plan moving forward,
and warned him not to go back to the aggressive rhetoric he employed toward
North Korea at times last year.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/24/trump-canceling-north-korea-summit-gets-mixed-reactions-from-congress.html
May 24: Trump Identifies His Trade Weapon of
Choice, to the Dismay of Congress
The president’s use of a national security law to threaten tariffs, most
recently on imported cars, has lawmakers, the auto industry and foreign trade
partners worried
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-gop-allies-worry-over-possible-new-u-s-auto-tariffs-1527179893
May 24: DOJ is giving a special partisan
briefing on the Trump-Russia investigation to GOP Congress members
There’s also a bipartisan meeting.
https://www.vox.com/2018/5/24/17388684/doj-briefing-gowdy-nunes
May 24: Trump on collision course with
Congress on ZTE, the Chinese telecommunications giant sanctioned for doing
business with Iran and North Korea.
Trump has publicly signaled his desire to ease the restrictions on ZTE as he
seeks China's cooperation on North Korea talks and hammering out a trade deal.
But Trump’s pivot on ZTE has received terrible reviews from Republicans in
Congress, who have joined with Democrats in passing measures to ensure the
restrictions are kept in place.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/389097-trump-on-collision-course-with-congress-on-zte
May 24: Republicans in Congress slam Trump
probe of auto imports
Some of President Donald Trump’s fellow Republicans in the U.S. Congress said on
Thursday that his administration’s national security investigation of car and
truck imports amid a trade spat with China is being pursued under false
pretenses and could hurt U.S. consumers.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-autos-lawmakers/republicans-in-congress-slam-trump-probe-of-auto-imports-idUSKCN1IP35J?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews
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May 24: Trump Lawyer Attended DOJ Meeting On
Confidential FBI Informant
Emmet Flood, the White House attorney dealing with the Russia probe, was present
at a controversial DOJ meeting about the investigation.
Justice Department officials initially invited only Nunes and committee member
Gowdy to review the classified information regarding the FBI informant and the
agency’s purported monitoring of Trump campaign officials. Democrats immediately
criticized the move, accusing the GOP of politicizing intelligence by initially
excluding Democrats from the classified briefing.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/doj-meeting-trump-fbi_us_5b06e0f4e4b07c4ea10613b3
May 25:
Trump Announces Plan to Save ZTE After His Administration Basically Killed It
https://gizmodo.com/trump-announces-plan-to-save-zte-after-his-administrati-1826341271
May 25: President Donald Trump said the U.S.
would allow Chinese telecommunications-equipment maker ZTE Corp. to remain in
business after paying a $1.3 billion fine, changing its management and board and
providing “high-level security guarantees.”
Under the deal for ZTE to resume operations, it will also hire American
compliance officers to monitor its operations according to the people, who spoke
on condition of anonymity. Once ZTE complies, the Commerce Department will lift
an order under which the company had been cut off from U.S. suppliers including
Qualcomm
Inc., effectively shutting down its business.
http://fortune.com/2018/05/26/zte-fine-donald-trump-china/
May 26: Although top senators, including
Democrat Chuck Schumer and Republican Marco Rubio, are urging the administration
not to bend on
ZTE, President Trump is planning to ease penalties on the Chinese
telecommunications giant for violating sanctions against Iran and North Korea.
But what Mr. Trump may not realize is that ZTE is also one of the world’s most
notorious intellectual property thieves — perhaps even the most
notorious of all.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/26/what-president-trump-doesnt-know-about-zte/
May 27: Congress sounds bipartisan alarm as
Trump deals on ZTE
Members of both parties say the Chinese telecom giant poses a national security
threat.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/congress-sounds-bipartisan-alarm-trump-deals-zte-n877601
September 7: Obama's campaign season debut
launches his midterm effort to rally Democrats to the polls and end Republicans'
grip on power in Congress. The former president warned Friday that the stakes
are high and the consequences of staying on the sidelines “dire.”
Delivering some of his toughest broadsides against the GOP since leaving office
– and referring to Trump by name, something he used to avoid – Obama said there
are certain "powerful and priveleged" people who want to "keep us angry."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/07/obama-rails-against-trump-republicans-in-fiery-return-to-campaign-trail.html
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September 7: In the battle for control of Congress, President Donald
Trump's weapon of choice is fear.
At a rally for Republican Senate nominee Matt Rosendale in Billings, Montana, on
Thursday night, the president warned his faithful that Democrats would raise
their taxes, take their guns, block his wall, abolish the Immigration and
Customs Enforcement agency, open U.S. borders, end Social Security and cut
Medicare.
He's also warned supporters this summer that the outcome in November could spell
trouble for freedom of speech and religion and the First Amendment — and that if
the GOP loses, violence could follow.
The overwhelming majority of the claims are patently false, but with two months
to go — and analysts in both parties convinced that there’s a nonremote chance
Republicans could lose at least the House — Trump is in desperation mode.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/fear-loathing-trump-campaign-trail-n907521
November 7: Ilhan Omar: Reaction to first
Somali-American elected to Congress
Ms Omar, who fled civil war in Somalia as a child and spent four years in a
refugee camp in Kenya, won Minnesota’s Fifth Congressional District in the
mid-term elections.
She is also the joint first Muslim woman to be elected to Congress, alongside
Rashida Tlaib.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-46131035/ilhan-omar-reaction-to-first-somali-american-elected-to-congress
December 17: At the turn of the 18th
century, a newly elected president of the United States—only the second in the
nation’s then-brief history—cautioned the American people about “the danger to
our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our
free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.” In particular, John Adams
pointed to threats from abroad, warning that if a changed election outcome “can
be obtained by foreign nations by flattery or menaces, by fraud or violence, by
terror, intrigue, or venality, the Government may not be the choice of the
American people, but of foreign nations. It may be foreign nations who govern
us, and not we, the people, who govern ourselves.” Speaking before a joint
session of Congress, he thus pleaded with the U.S. Senate and the House of
Representatives to “[preserve] our Constitution from its natural enemies,”
including “the profligacy of corruption, and the pestilence of foreign
influence, which is the angel of destruction to elective governments.”1
The threat of foreign influence over our elections did not wane in the
intervening 220 years: Today, the United States has a president whose election
was aided by the fraud and intrigue of a foreign nation. Americans who watched
how President Donald Trump, in the words of the late Sen. John McCain, “abased
himself … abjectly before a tyrant” in Helsinki, cannot be faulted for wondering
whether John Adams’s long-ago warning has become a reality.2
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/democracy/reports/2018/12/17/464235/following-the-money/
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January 13: Three newly empowered Democratic
House committee chairmen, alarmed by statements over the weekend by President
Trump about his former lawyer’s planned testimony before Congress, cautioned on
Sunday that any effort to discourage or influence a witness’s testimony could be
construed as a crime.
The warning, a stark and unusual message from some of Congress’s most
influential Democrats, underscores the increasing legal and political peril
facing Mr. Trump. Democrats are beginning their own investigations of him as the
special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, appears to move toward a conclusion in
his investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia and potential
obstruction of justice by Mr. Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/13/us/politics/trump-cohen-testimony.html
February 6: Pelosi warns Trump about making
'threats' against Congress
Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., asked what's the president
"afraid of"?
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/pelosi-warns-trump-about-making-threats-against-congress-n968436?cid=referral_taboolafeed
February 12: New congressional deal gives
little money for Trump’s border wall
It’s unclear if President Trump will support the deal.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/congress-agrees-to-fund-government-with-little-money-for-trumps-wall-2019-02-12
February 12: Trump’s Wall ‘Emergency’ Would
Be The First To Overrule Congress On Spending
Trump and his defenders argue that every recent president has declared
emergencies — but none has done so because Congress refused to fund a pet
project.
While six previous presidents declared dozens of national emergencies,
Donald Trump’s threatened one over a border wall would be the first to
finance an unpopular construction project that congresses both in his own
country and in a neighboring one have refused to pay for.
Trump has been warning for months that he would declare an emergency if Congress
failed to appropriate $5.7 billion for a wall along the border with Mexico, and
he repeated the threat at a re-election rally in El Paso, Texas, Monday night.
“As I was walking up to the stage, they said that progress is being made with
this committee,” he said of a bipartisan deal that would provide $1.375 billion
for border barriers. “Just so you know, we’re building the wall anyway.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-border-wall-emergency-tantrum_us_5c62fbf3e4b00ba63e4b0a53
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February 13: Another week in Washington
comes with another chaotic scramble to prevent a government shutdown.
With a little more than two days to spare before funding lapses for the second
time since December, confusion reigned Wednesday. Congress hurried to hash out
text for spending legislation, as a few remaining snags held up the release of a
final plan.
News outlets say President Donald Trump is expected to sign what lawmakers pass
— even as Trump and his administration stress that he wants to see legislation
before backing it. On Wednesday, the president said "we'll be looking for
landmines" in the form of unwanted proposals once the plan is finished.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/13/trump-wont-commit-to-signing-border-security-deal-ahead-of-shutdown.html
February 13: CNN host Jake Tapper on
Wednesday ridiculed Donald Trump’s condemnation of Minnesota Democratic
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar by airing clips of the president’s history of anti-semitic
moments.
After Omar was criticized by Democratic leadership—who declared that her “use of
anti-Semitic tropes and prejudicial accusations about Israel’s supporters is
deeply offensive”—the congresswoman apologized on Monday for posting tweets over
the weekend which suggested that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
bought influence over U.S. politicians.
Despite the apology, which was backed by
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y) and Chelsea Clinton, Trump condemned
Omar on Tuesday and called on the congresswoman to resign over her comments.
"Anti-Semitism has no place in the United States Congress and I think she should
either resign from Congress or she should certainly resign from the House
Foreign Affairs Committee,” the president said, adding that her comments were
“deep-seated in her heart.”
During a segment on The
Lead today, host Jake Tapper pointed out that the president has never
apologized for his own history of anti-Semitic behavior before launching into
several clips proving his statement.
The chyrons at bottom of the segment read: “Double standard? Trump’s hypocrisy
on anti-semitism as he calls for Rep Omar to resign.”
https://www.newsweek.com/cnns-jake-tapper-ridicules-trump-accidentally-airing-presidents-history-anti-1331037
February 13: Congress poised to put Trump in
veto bind
President Trump has not issued a veto since taking office more than
two years ago, but that may soon change.
The House will move a step closer to a major confrontation with Trump by voting
as soon as Wednesday on a resolution that would cut off U.S. military support to
the Saudi-led coalition in neighboring Yemen.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/429716-congress-poised-to-put-trump-in-veto-bind
May 24: The House on Friday failed to pass
the Senate-passed $19 billion bill providing disaster aid funding to parts of
the United States hit by hurricanes, flooding, earthquakes and wildfires after a
Republican lawmaker objected.
The House tried to pass the measure during a pro forma session by unanimous
consent, since most lawmakers had left for a weeklong Memorial Day recess the
day before. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, objected, saying the bill didn't address the
humanitarian crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border and that it was not paid for.
"Our nation is strong enough, and compassionate enough, to have a responsive and
fiscally responsive approach to help people who are hurting in the wake of
natural disasters," he said.
It was unclear what would happen next. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said in
a statement that he would be "discussing a path forward with Members on both
sides of the aisle, and we will take action as early as next week when the House
meets again during pro forma."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-fails-pass-19-billion-disaster-relief-bill-after-gop-n1009741
May 24: A federal judge has
temporarily blocked part of President Donald Trump’s plan to build a wall along
the southern border with money Congress never appropriated for that purpose.
U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam Jr., of the Northern District of California,
said those challenging Trump’s actions had a good chance of prevailing on their
claims that the administration is acting illegally in shifting money from other
programs to pay for the wall.
With some contracts already awarded for construction, Gilliam said that allowing
work to go forward before the legal issues have been fully resolved could cause
irreparable harm.
Gilliam ruled in response to lawsuits brought by the Sierra Club and the
Southern Border Communities Coalition.
The plaintiffs sought preliminary injunctions against the administration’s
diversion of billions of dollars meant for other purposes. The plaintiffs
alleged that Trump’s actions violate the constitutional requirement that no
money may be spent without an appropriation from Congress as well as legal
restrictions on the purposes for which funds can be reallocated.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/05/24/california-judge-blocks-trump-border-wall-funding/
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