Dear Editor,

President Donald Trump has threatened to declare a national emergency to build the border wall he said Mexico would pay for.

Climate change is a national emergency. Children in cages at the border is a national emergency. TSA agents calling in sick is a national emergency. The EPA, FDA and the USDA not being funded is a national emergency.

The idea that ordinary workers should miss one pay day for the sake of a political statement is disgraceful.

National emergency? It began the day Trump was elected.

Sincerely,

Robert LaRosa

Whitestone