Posted on 03/12/2019 9:08:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The White House and Republican senators sought compromise Tuesday on limiting presidents' powers to unilaterally declare national emergencies, as chances improved that President Donald Trump might avoid a long-expected rejection by Congress of his effort to divert billions more for building barriers along the Mexican border.
As a Thursday showdown vote in the Senate neared, GOP Sens. Mike Lee of Utah, Thom Tillis of North Carolina and others were talking with the White House about related legislation that would curb the ability of presidents to declare future emergencies. If Trump would commit to signing a bill handcuffing future emergency declarations, more GOP senators might support his border emergency declaration in Thursday's vote.
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ryan is a traitor to the United States.
ryan should be whipped with a cat of nine tails, tarred and feathered, and banished for life.
Why should the President give political cover to Never Trump Senators? He has the votes to sustain a veto so let’s see who opposes him and get rid of them. His declaration of an Emergency on the border is in conjunction with his duties as Commander in Chief not an end run around Congress as his detractors have framed it. It is they who have shirked their duty to the Constitution and the oath they swore to protect it in the name of power politics.
Spot on, I agree 100%, Rinos are really Rats and back stabbers we should primary out of this GOP.
Congress gave power to previous Presidents, Trump is using it because these weasels shirked their responsibility to protect us. 74,000 USA Citizens died last year because they didn’t do their job. Thank God for Trump, protecting us.
“The president of the United States does not even have to declare a national emergency. He can rely on existing federal law to stop all immigration today on the basis that there is a crisis, that there is an invasion. He can site any number of reasons for it, but he doesn’t even have to do that. The law permits him singularly to decide whether or not there is a crisis or danger at the border.”
Limit the powers? Amend the National Emergencies Act.
Spare us your daily pearl clutching bullshit.
By and large I do not trust the GOP in the Senate. Suddenly, these gutless wonders have constitutional concerns with a law that has been on the books for forty years?
And ONLY when a Republican outsider President employs said law? Horsecrap.
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