This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Friday, February 15.

I'm Kate Trinkov.

And I'm Daniel Davis.

Well, as the national debt ticks upward past $22 trillion, Congress is getting set to pile

on yet more debt, as they consider a massive omnibus bill.

Today we'll talk with Heritage Budget Expert Justin Justin Bogie to unpack the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Plus, it looks like Republicans called the Democrats Bluff on the Green New Deal, and they're relishing it.

But first, we'll cover a few of the top headlines.

While Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has announced that President Trump will sign the omnibus spending bill and then declare a national emergency on the border.

Here's what he had to say on the Senate floor on Thursday.

President Trump and he, I would say to all my colleagues,

has indicated he's prepared to sign the bill.

He will also be issuing a national emergency declaration

at the

And I've indicated to him that I'm going to prepare I'm going to support the National Emergency Declaration

So for all of my colleagues the president will will sign the bill. We'll be voting on it shortly.

The omnibus bill provides $1.37 billion for the president's border wall,

far less than the $5 billion that he originally requested.

Declaring a national emergency would free up unappropriated funds for the president to use,

though it would almost certainly provoke a legal challenge.

White House Press Secretary Seru Huckabee Sanders said

that the president is once again delivering on his promise to build the wall,

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