Biden decree ends 'emergency' that Trump used to build wall
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February 11, 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has officially ended the “national emergency” that President Donald Trump declared in order to take money from the Pentagon to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The White House released a letter Thursday from Biden to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi notifying Congress that he had rescinded his predecessor’s February 2019 proclamation.
It was a formality since Biden ordered a halt to border wall construction shortly after he took office.
In his letter, the president said Trump's declaration of a national emergency had been “unwarranted” and that he had...
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