Sure, but I think he’s wasting his time. He should just call it and be done already. Like I said, Pelosi and Schumer have already made it abundantly clear they have no intention of budging on this.
I think you’re right. He’s setting the table to show that democrats have created a series of crises intentionally so that he has no choice but to declare an emergency to bring as much of it under control as he can.
What he should do politically is start raking them over the coals and coming out as the great defender of the 800,000 or so federal employees that are going on a month now with no pay.
Preaching to the choir isn’t going to get the job done. To gain the political capital he needs he’s got to start winning large numbers of converts to his cause.