CNN: White House is preparing a declaration of emergency

The White House is preparing an emergency announcement that President Donald Trump can use as a way to build a wall on the southern border bypassing Congress if lawmakers do not allocate funds for construction.

Об этом сообщает CNN со ссылкой на внутренние документы, пишет «Voice of America«.

According to a government source, the draft document was updated last week. According to CNN, Trump's advisers are still ambiguous about this idea.

Trump insists on the need to allocate 5,7 billions of dollars to build the wall, which was one of his key campaign promises in 2016. Democrats refuse to comply with this requirement, in return, offering to allocate funds for other measures to ensure border security.

According to a CNN source, among the options under consideration for financing the wall are to attract 681 million dollars from the fund's confiscation fund of the Ministry of Finance, 3,6 billion from the construction budget of the armed forces, 3 billion from the Pentagon civil engineering budget and the Ministry of Internal Security.

According to CNN, in the event of a state of emergency, construction will be entrusted to the US Army Corps of Engineers.

According to the documents, it is planned to skip the environmental review, and the Ministry of Homeland Security will issue permits to circumvent contracting laws to speed up the process.

Recall 22 December in the US, began shatdaun - partial closure of the federal government due to lack of funding. The congress and presidential administration cannot agree on expenses for the next year or at least several months. President Donald Trump is demanding almost 6 billion dollars to be allocated for the construction of a wall on the border with Mexico, but Congress, whose lower house is under the control of the Democratic Party after the mid-term elections, refuses to allocate this money.