Posted on 09/07/2019 4:32:14 PM PDT by Kazan
Republican Senators Mike Lee and Mitt Romney have co-sponsored legislation that will prevent President Trump in the future of diverting federal funds to border wall construction.
The two Republican senators name their bill the Article One Act and it will end all future emergency declarations made under the National Emergencies Act after 30 days unless Congress votes to extend them.
Existing laws allow the president of the United States to reprogram existing appropriations for certain purposes.
President Trump declared a national emergency Friday citing cartel violence, human trafficking and drug trafficking to access funds to build the border wall.
So where was the outrage after Obama Declared National Emergencies 13 Times Including Swine Flu, Iran and Flint Water Crisis?
KSL reported:
Utah GOP Sens. Mike Lee and Mitt Romney said the Air Force told them Wednesday that money appropriated by Congress for the Hill projects would instead be spent on the wall as a result of President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration in February. Both senators had urged the Defense Department to protect funding for the Utah projects.
“Congress has been ceding far too much power to the executive branch for decades and it is far past time for Congress to restore the proper balance of power between the three branches,” Lee said in a statement.
Pentagon officials on Tuesday said the Defense Department would redirect $3.6 billion from 127 existing military construction projects to build about 175 miles of wall on the southern border.
Lee said his proposed Article One Act would correct the imbalances caused by the National Emergencies Act.
The bill, co-sponsored by Romney, would automatically end all future emergency declarations made under the National Emergencies Act after 30 days unless Congress votes to extend them. Congress now can cancel an emergency declaration only by passing a resolution that withstands a presidential veto.
Romney said he is “disappointed” that despite the concerns he and Lee raised, the projects will be “delayed.”
Peoples hate for the President is overpowering them. ZEROS all of them
Romney must be guilty of some crime to be so motivated to interfere with the Trump administration.
Separating the wheat from the chaff
Let them waste their time. Trump will veto it.
Ho LEE phook.
Trump should hammer them relentlessly over this. Truly sickening.
RINOs are not much better than Democrats.
ROMNEY wants to be PRESIDENT.
Somebody’s gotta divert these RINOs into retirement.
Dem Mormans are hard to figure out.
The asshole is not guilty. He’s just JEALOUS that he failed to be president and Trump succeeded.
To add, he’s an ungrateful backstabber when Trump talked to him for a position in the WH days after the winning the election and his loser ego couldn’t take it..
He had his chance and spent more time attacking Republicans than Obama.
Ankle-biting idiots. It won’t get through the Senate and certainly will not get POTUS to sign it.
They’re both part of the Mormon Mafia. You can be sure that some of the money being spent on The Wall was destined to line the pockets of some of their LDS buddies which means 10% would go to the Church and probably 20% would go to each of them.
Lee used to be a conservative. Not no mo.
Senator Lee’s statement is true but is also typically lawerspeak. It’s a weasel way of avoiding being seen as anti-Trump and, in this case, anti-border security or pro-open borders. With all of the money the Pentagon wastes each year they could build two walls and not suffer.
>>Ho LEE phook.<<
Sum Ting Wong
Mormons are not loyal to this country.
If they could have, they would have made Utah a separate country.
If he wanted to be president he wouldn’t have laid down the last 2 weeks against Obama.
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