President Trump was not expected to declare a national emergency at the southern border when he makes a prime-time speech from the Oval Office on Tuesday, according to the Wall Street Journal, citing a source who has seen drafts of the speech.

Instead, Trump will try to explain why he considers the situation at the border “a crisis,” the paper reported, a term many national experts, Democrats and even some Republicans dispute.

Trump has threatened to veto any government spending bills that do not include the $5.7 billion he wants for a roughly 235-mile section of his long-promised wall on the 2,000-mile Mexican border.

The president, the Journal reported, will make his case by repeating his familiar talking points that drugs, criminals, human traffickers and even terrorists are flooding the country across the border.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer will deliver a rebuttal to the president’s remarks and are expected to argue that the only crisis at the border — the separation of children from their parents — was created by Team Trump’s zero-tolerance stance on illegal immigration.