Posted on 01/24/2019 3:05:37 PM PST by blueyon
Washington (CNN)The White House is preparing a draft proclamation for President Donald Trump to declare a national emergency along the southern border and has identified more than $7 billion in potential funds for his signature border wall should he go that route, according to internal documents reviewed by CNN. Trump has not ruled out using his authority to declare a national emergency and direct the Defense Department to construct a border wall as Congress and the White House fight over a deal to end the government shutdown.
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Hope it’s true.
Yes, but is CNN a reputable news source?
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Does a lion use a knife and fork?
But........John Roberts is still vertical.
How to steal a nation:
Allow illegals to be counted in the Census.
Open borders.
Increase representation in Congress and that adds Electoral votes.
Another bluff, unlikely to work unless the desire is to be given the middle finger by Pelosi.
Yep. While I absolutely believe it is being considered in some form, until a source other than CNN, MSNBC, WaPo, etc. conforms it I won’t believe it.
As sure as I can juggle flaming chainsaws while riding a unicycle.
FEMA has 58 billion for national emergencies
How big is the caravan this time?
Probably still alive but will not have the strength to resume full time court duties. I expect a long 2 year vacation first or will WORK FROM HOME for 2 years.
Just an idea:
Move the sections of the wall near San Deago somewhere else since Pelosi says they re immoral.
Why not the original $25 billion. You could get that by siphoning off a year’s worth of defense pork.
This idea sets a terrible precedent.
If this works, you can bet your bottom dollar the next time there is a Democratic President and the Republicans control one of the chambers of Congress, or both, we’ll be getting the “Climate Change National Emergency” measure with a half-trillion dollars of spending attached. Not to mention the “Health Care National Emergency” with a trillion-dollar single-payer scheme attached, followed immediately by the “Undocumented Immigrant National Emergency” multi-billion dollar amnesty/citizenship program.
This essentially end-runs around the Constitution to establish a borderline dictatorship.
In addition, if Trump does go this route, what will happen is the Democrats will fight with every legal delaying trick in the book. Not a dime will be spent on actual construction for months as it winds its way through the courts, and it’s incredibly unlikely significant portions of the wall will be finished by 2020 or 2024, at which point the Democrat President will declare the Emergency over, stop the construction and you’ll have a half-finished, graffitti-covered thing, forever linked to the Trump Presidency and the Republican party hanging over the South and the Border as the greatest white-elephant project in the nation’s history.
Make Congress pass a law.
Follow the Constitution.
That’s pretty much the danger with the illegal aliens pouring into our country
I think Judicial Watch won a lawsuit in CA and I think other states and cleaning up the problem in CA
The number of voters in LA is 112% of the adult population
Similar figures in many areas
Best place to get money is to stop the welfare education and medical benefits to all non-citizens in the United States
Hundreds of billions
If there actually is pork in the defense funds use it to build the wall
“Make Congress pass a law.”
I totally get what you are saying and you may well be entirely correct.
But you can’t make Congress pass a law. They won’t...they can’t...it is impossible, with a country as broken and in throes of societal revolution as this one is, with a government that is wholly and completely opposed to the wishes of its own people, to get Congress to pass anything at all of substance.
The Constitution is dead.
The country is dead.
Annual cost of illegal immigration by state:
CA.. $21.8 Billion
NY.. $9.5 Billion
TX.. $8.9 Billion
FL.. $5.5 Billion
IL.. $4.6 Billion
NJ.. $3.5 Billion
AZ.. $2.6 Billion
GA. $2.4 Billion
Annual national cost over $84 billion
Illegals are a financial drain on our country— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) January 25, 2019
The way I understand “National Emergency” is that the President can use unallocated money for national emergencies. The President can’t unilaterally add or change taxes. So there is no way a single-payer scheme can be created by a President alone.
How long would a fight to the Supreme Court take? The Hobby Lobby case started in September 2012 when Hobby Lobby files a suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Hobby Lobby in June 2014. So the Supreme Court could rule in favor of Trump in less than 2 years.
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