What are these guys thinking?
As The Washington Post reported, President Bill Clinton declared emergencies 17 times, George W. Bush 12 and Barack Obama 13.
Well, it’s not so much the declaration of the emergency, it’s the using it to seize budgetary authority from the congress that I think they’re concerned about. Usually these things are declared to freeze some dictator’s US based financial assets, not to violate the principles of the constitution.
Barack Obama gave the Iranians half a billion dollars and didn’t even bother to declare an emergency or ask congress...Selective righteous indignation