[Cboldt]

-- The thought being tossed about is that under the Emergency Act, the POTUS has the ability to appropriate funds as he deems necessary. --

WTF is "The Emergency Act?" Be specific.

In HR 1625, I see references to:

• Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 [p 1494, et seq]
• Emergency Livestock Feed Assistance Act of 1988 [p 1548]
• EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS GRANTS [p 1574]
• Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Act [p 1602]
• Emergency Solutions Grants program as authorized under subtitle B of title IV of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act [p 1615]
• Emergency Low Income Housing Preservation Act of 1987 [p 1620]
• Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 [p 59]
• Community Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1977 [p 127]

There are probably others, and those are just the rhetoric where the title literally includes the word "Act," there are numerous other "Programs" and other labels where Congress saw fit to cite an emergency or the possibility of an emergency.

And that doesn't get to the possibility that you are thinking of declaration of emergency by the president, and not some Congressional "Emergency Act."

I mean generically, sure, the president can allocate funds for emergencies. That isn't unusual. He can never appropriate, that is only for Congress. He can allocate money that Congress spends, and he can ask or beg for an appropriation, but Congress has the purse strings.

This appropriation bill is fairly pedestrian in appropriating funds for emergency purposes. I doubt Trump could convince Congress that building the wall is the sort of emergency that justifies building the wall without a specific appropriation, and Congress is who he has to sell the argument to.

[hoosiermama]

Read the December 21st declaration of national emergency

https://amac.us/president-trump-signs-executive-order-declares-national-emergency/

[No_Doll_i]

Alrighty then. Note to self: only as 3 legal question per day to Cboldt, the 4th will get a brutal response.
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