58 former national security officials to rebuke Trump’s emergency declaration

Defense News: A bipartisan group of 58 former senior national security officials is expected to join opposition to President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration.

The president aims to use military construction funds to build his southern border wall, beyond the $1.4 billion Congress approved for border security. But he faces opposition from House Democrats mounting a vote Tuesday to block it — and now a joint statement whose signatories include former Secretaries of State Madeline Albright and John Kerry, former Defense Secretaries Chuck Hagel and Leon Panetta, and former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.

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