Daryl Hunt
Your Worst Nightmare
- Oct 22, 2014
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But in declaring a national emergency and reallocating some money, he followed laws passed by Congress, so it is really Congress that is building the border fence, just as the proposed doing in 2013 (Senate bill, S. 744).Congress spends the money, not the president.
He can't spend one penny without their approval.
Unless he declares a his policy agenda a 'National Emergency' to access the power to re-allocate spending.
That's a Gene we should want to put back in the bottle, but I have a feeling we wont.
Exactly. The National Emergency act should have been declared unconstitutional because it doesn't clearly define what constitutes a national emergency. Because it allows a president to decide, at his whim alone, what constitutes a national emergency. Put that Genie back in the bottle. Trumpybear exposed the flaw. Neither party should have that power.
I think Admiral Maquire stated it pretty well when he called all this Unprecedented. Only Rump would have the balls to push it this far and expect to get away scott free.