14. “Public Law 115-31—May 5, 2017,” US Congress, https://www.congress.gov/115/plaws/publ31/PLAW-115publ31.pdf.
15. “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018,” US Congress. https://www.congress.gov/115/plaws/publ141/PLAW-115publ141.pdf.
16. “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019,” US Congress, https://congress.gov/116/bills/hjres31/BILLS-116hjres31enr.pdf.
17. Laura Meckler, “Trump Administration Seeks $18 Billion over Decade to Expand Border Wall,” Wall Street Journal, January 5, 2018, https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-administration-seeks-18-billion-over-decade-to-expand-border-wall-1515148381.
18. “H.R. 7059–Build the Wall, Enforce the Law Act of 2018,” US Congress, October 12, 2018, https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/7059/text.
19. Burgess Everett and Seung Min Kim, “Schumer Withdraws Offer on Trump’s Wall,” Politico, January 23, 2018, https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/23/chuck-schumer-trump-wall-offer-359156.
20. Brandon Carter, “50 States and Territories Projects,” NPR, https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=6382249-50-States-and-Territories-Projects.
21. Paul Sonne, “To Pay for Trump’s Wall, a Hurricane-Wrecked Base in Puerto Rico Loses Funding,” Washington Post, September 19, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/at-half-ruined-puerto-rico-base-hurricane-recovery-funds-pulled-for-trumps-wall/2019/09/19/173ad4f4-d63c-11e9-ab26-e6dbebac45d3_story.html.
22. Lamar Alexander, “Alexander Statement on Vote to Disapprove of National Emergency Declaration,” September 25, 2019, https://www.alexander.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2019/9/alexander-statement-on-vote-to-disapprove-of-national-emergency-declaration.
23. Tim Lau, “Progress Toward Reforming the National Emergencies Act,” Brennan Center for Justice, July 29, 2019, https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/progress-toward-reforming-national-emergencies-act.
24. Pete Williams, “Judge Rules Trump Violated the Law on Wall Funding with National Emergency,” NBC News, October 11, 2019, https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/judge-rules-trump-violated-law-wall-funding-national-emergency-n1065216.
25. Nick Miroff and Josh Dawsey, “ ‘Take the Land’: President Trump Wants a Border Wall. He Wants It Black. And He Wants It by Election Day,” Washington Post, August 27, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/take-the-land-president-trump-wants-a-border-wall-he-wants-it-black-and-he-wants-it-by-election-day/2019/08/27/37b80018-c821-11e9-a4f3-c081a126de70_story.html.
26. Salvador Rizzo, “More Than Two Years Later, Trump’s Wall Remains Unbuilt,” Washington Post, September 6, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/06/more-than-two-years-later-trumps-wall-remains-unbuilt/.
27. Donald J. Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Meeting on Human Trafficking on the Southern Border,” White House, February 1, 2019, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-meeting-human-trafficking-southern-border/.
28. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, January 2, 2019, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1080457560291987457.
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Afterword: Closing Thoughts
1. Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, “US Attitudes Toward Socialism, Communism, and Collectivism,” YouGov, October 2019, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-Finnggps7JDvgoylYYWc_onPtP8UiR8/view.
2. “Executive Order 9066: Resulting in the Relocation of Japanese (1942),” February 19, 1942, National Archives, https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=74#.
3. Thom Tillis, “I Support Trump’s Vision on Border Security. But I Would Vote Against the Emergency,” Washington Post, February 25, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/02/25/i-support-trumps-vision-border-security-i-would-vote-against-emergency/.
5. Scott Wong and Alexander Bolton, “GOP’s Tillis Comes Under Pressure for Taking on Trump,” The Hill, March 13, 2019, https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/433929-gops-tillis-comes-under-pressure-for-taking-on-trump.
6. Brian Murphy, “Tillis Reverses Course, Votes to Support Trump on National Emergency Declaration,” News & Observer [Raleigh, NC], March 14, 2019, https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article227742754.html.
7. Gary D. Robertson, “Rep. Mark Walker Declines Tillis Primary Challenge,” News & record [Greensboro, NC], June 13, 2019, https://www.greensboro.com/news/state/rep-mark-walker-declines-tillis-primary-challenge/article_10e7e0c1-ec31-5265-9857-baf0b43a756e.html.
8. Gary D. Robertson, “Trump Endorses North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis,” Associated Press, June 25, 2019, https://apnews.com/3bf80ecb6a6a42f58a640e2b4e669ca8.
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* Surely you remember your childhood! “I’m just a bill/Yes, I’m only a bill/And if they vote for me on Capitol Hill/Well, then I’m off to the White House/Where I’ll wait in a line/With a lot of other bills/For the president to sign.”
* By Trump’s one thousandth day in office, he had tweeted the term “fake news” well over five hundred times and said it who knows how often in other forums.
* That was as of the time of writing, July 6, 2017.
* He in fact has a US trade representative, Robert Lighthizer.
* Let’s not think for a second—not one effing second—that paying for humanitarian aid with tariffs is a “fiscally responsible” way of doing it. Trump did not make that argument, and no one should make it for him. Trump’s
Republican Party does not give a damn about fiscal conservatism, anyway.