It’s not a misuse of power. Congress appropriated the funds and passed legislation to allow the president to divert the money by declaring a national emergency. The president isn’t spending any money that Congress didn’t permit. They even wrote a process into the law to overturn a president’s emergency declaration. And who has sole discretion to determine what counts as an emergency (per the law)? The president.
What’s interesting here is how all of the previous emergency declarations were pretty much rubber stamped. Congress didn’t see fit to even vote on them when issued and hasn’t reauthorized them every six months in accordance with the law (as I understand it).
When Ann is right, she’s right. Where was Mr. Principled Stand and his Republican cohorts on past emergency declarations. Why take a stand now? This is more about open borders in my opinion than taking a stand for the US Constitution. We pretty much tossed that document into the trash decades ago!
I agree with you that it’s a problem when ONLY conservative emergency declarations make the news. That is a separate issue to me. But just shows how the people who own or control the media control everything.