Donald Trump says he’s ‘proud’ to have signed the first veto of his presidency - overriding congressional opposition to secure emergency funds to build more walls on the US-Mexico border
Trump declared in the Oval Office that he was"proud" to sign the veto.
"The mass incursion of illegal aliens... has to end," he said."People hate the word 'invasion' but that's what it is... Our immigration system is stretched beyond the breaking point."Trump's emergency declaration allows him to secure funding for construction of border walls after he failed to get authorization from Congress.
Trump has made border security an over-arching domestic issue in his presidency and says it will remain at the center of the agenda in his 2020 reelection bid.
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