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Gov. Tony Evers called Wednesday for Wisconsin to join a group of states that want a judge to invalidate President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to help fund construction of a wall at the nation’s southern border.

In a statement, Evers said he’s directing Attorney General Josh Kaul to add Wisconsin to a group of states bringing the challenge.

For Evers, a Democrat who became Wisconsin’s chief executive in January, the move is among his starkest acts of defiance yet toward the Republican president.

Trump’s national emergency declaration, issued last month, aims to redirect $8 billion in federal funds to build a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. The move came after Congress passed a measure providing $1.37 billion for the wall, far less than what Trump sought.

The group of 20 attorneys general contends Trump’s actions violate the constitutional separation of powers between the executive and legislative branches.

Evers said in the statement that “this isn’t how democracy is supposed to work.”

“This manufactured crisis harms communities, taxpayers and our country while ignoring the true crisis of separating kids from their families,” Evers said in a related Twitter post.