(February 15, 2019 at 2:00 pm)Jackalope Wrote: Blatantly unconstitutional action, by virtue of the fact that there is no actual emergency, it exceeds the statutory/constitution authority vested in the executive and it clearly usurps the power of Congress to apportion money. The latter is the strongest, Congress has *explicitly* denied the administration the funds.
This will not stand.
Reading up on this, it appears that Congress can vacate a presidentially declared 'emergency' by a simple majority. Given that there seem to be a number of Republican senators who hate the idea of funding Der Wall in this manner, Trump's declaration in no way makes the wall a done deal.
Boru
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