Editorial: Trump's national emergency is fake and the GOP knows it. Stop him before the damage is done
Like many critics of President Donald Trump, we expected that he would someday abuse the power of the office to such a degree that it would trigger a confrontation with Congress or the courts. And now he's doing it, in pursuit of a wall along the southern border that Mexico isn't financing.
On Friday, Trump declared a national emergency over a nonexistent "national security crisis" at the border, then invoked that emergency to shift billions of dollars from previously approved military construction projects to his wall. The move contravenes weeks of negotiations by lawmakers and an explicit decision, backed by large majorities in both chambers, to reject Trump's request for
