Posted on 02/05/2019 7:29:40 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) declared she would "most definitely" lead a legal challenge if President Trump decides to bypass Congress and declare a national emergency to get money he's requested for a border wall.
Wasserman Schultz leads the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies; Trump would be dipping into military construction funds if he went the emergency route.
"I don't like to take things off the table. It's that alternative. It's national emergency, it's other things and, you know, there have been plenty national emergencies called," Trump told CBS in an interview aired Sunday. "You need a wall. And anybody that says you don't, they're just playing games."
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) was trying to whip reluctant Republicans on the Hill into supporting a bypass of Congress, saying, "To every Republican, if you don’t stand behind this president, we’re not going to stand behind you, when it comes to the wall."
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway told reporters today that Trump is keeping the national emergency as an option because "the Congress has failed to do its job," but "at the same time this president is going to call for an end to the politics of resistance, retribution and call for more comity."
Wasserman Schultz said that "there's not a national emergency that would meet the test that would allow for the president to make such a declaration in this case," because "if you look at border crossings and apprehensions at the border, we have border crossings that are about a fifth of where they were going back to 2000."
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"We have the lowest amount of apprehensions that we have had in four decades. So the president is just not telling the truth when it comes to there being a case to be made for a national emergency to be declared," she said. "And then what also is important is that the president doesn't have the power of the purse. He can't just decide that he doesn't like the way Congress has appropriated the funds in an appropriations act that has been signed into law. So because we are not doing what he wants, he thinks he can just declare a national emergency and take the money from military construction projects that are already under funded."
If she tries it, we’ll send Ocasio over to her house to kick her ass.
Some people have a PHD. Others have an MBA. She is just an ASS!
9th Circuit Court here we come... ( you read it here first ).
I gots me a Judge even ,LOL
Bring it.
When can we just start calling these assholes what they are: seditionists?
And start treating them as such?
She should be in prison for treason by now.
Gonna be difficult for her to do while in prison.....................
Bernie Sanders had her and Hillary by the balls but he wet himself
Debbie wheresherbrain has forgotten that Congress in 1976 pass the law allowing the President to do that and I think in 1972 they passed a law allowing the President to use the military to undertake project to secure our boarders without Congressional approval.
DUCK WOMAN says Debbie should stop using Hellman’s as a hair conditioner
...serve her with a warrant... Live!
She is going to need more mayo for her hair, what with all of the upcoming public appearances. I wonder, does she use Hellman’s or Miracle Whip?
Dems are so predictable.
Like the tides, or the phases of the Moon.
The Uniparty will go to any lengths to keep the Cheap Labor Express running.
Bush League Republicans have invested their careers in seeing the Bush Plan for North Mexico to its fruition.
There is no path to their New World Order with US in the way.
Poor Wittle Debbie.
Headshake.
What a dolt.
Hi.
Why isn’t Wasserman Schultz under indictment for aiding an abetting espionage?
5.56mm
geeze...someone should remind DWS there is a process in place for congress to object.
The courts should immediately strike it down as not being ripe.
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