1/10/2019

BORDER/FEMA/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Latest on President Donald Trump and the partial government shutdown (all times local): 7:15 p.m. The former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency says what’s happening on the U.S. southern border is no emergency. W. Craig Fugate, who ran the national disaster agency for nearly eight years under President Barack Obama and was head of Florida’s disaster agency under a Republican governor, says the push of refugees seeking asylum on the border with Mexico is not a national emergency. President Donald Trump has called it a crisis and is weighing declaring it a national emergency to bypass a reluctant Congress and fund his long-promised border wall. Fugate says Trump ‘is posturing, blustering.'”

Associated Press, “The Latest: Trump Moves Closer to Emergency Declaration,” The New York Times online, January 10, 2019