Congress passed a joint resolution to terminate the national emergency, but it was vetoed by Trump this was his first veto. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called the declaration an affront to the rule of law that was "a lawless act, a gross abuse of the power of the presidency and a desperate attempt to distract from the fact that President Trump broke his core promise to have Mexico pay for his wall." Some Republicans also criticized Trump's declaration, fearing that circumventing Congress would set a dangerous precedent for the future. Trump's declaration of a national emergency was condemned by Democrats as unconstitutional U.S. presidents involved circumventing Congress to spend money it had expressly refused to authorize or allocate. Trump's declaration was unprecedented in that none of the 58 previous emergency declarations made by U.S. Under Trump's plan, $3.6 billion assigned to military construction, $2.5 billion meant for the Department of Defense's drug interdiction activities, and $600 million from the Treasury's forfeiture fund would be diverted for wall construction. Under Proclamation 9844, the Trump administration intended to redirect $8 billion in previously-agreed expenditure and to use the money to build the wall instead. Trump had previously threatened to declare a national emergency if Congress did not pass his entire desired program for a wall on the United States–Mexican border by February 15, 2019. Trump declared the emergency after he signed, but derided, a bipartisan funding bill (passed by the House and the Senate a day before) containing border security funding without funding for the border wall that Trump demanded. Department of Defense for military construction. Citing the National Emergencies Act, it ordered the diversion of billions of dollars of funds that had been appropriated to the U.S. The National Emergency Concerning the Southern Border of the United States ( Proclamation 9844) was declared on February 15, 2019, by President of the United States Donald Trump.
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