WorldWatcher
Gold Member
If I were Trump, I would tell Piglosi and Shoemaker this is the deal: you either give me the 5 billion for the wall, or I will declare a national emergency. If you force me to do that, the wall will be 25 billion, and it will be the largest most beautiful wall ever imagined.
If he does, the money doesn't just appear.
He has to take it from other government agencies that have already been appropriated.
Secondly, declaring an emergency still doesn't open the government as the agencies not funded, still won't be funded.
Finally, McConnell would hate him for it. Under Section 202 of the National Security Act Congress can end an emergency declaration with a Joint Resolution and the DEM's would pass that out of the house in a hot minutes and send it to the Senate. Now, the Senate probably wouldn't pass it, however it would require the GOP Senators to vote on the record and McConnell doesn't want that with something like 22 GOP Senators out of 33 being up for election in 2020. If passed by the House it is required to be voted on by the Senate, McConnell would have no choice.
Text of H.R. 3884 (94th): National Emergencies Act (Passed Congress version) - GovTrack.us
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