Donald Trumps Orders on Border Wall Stir Concern Over Presidential Power

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WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging immigration and national-security initiatives are prompting Republican lawmakers to evaluate whether his impulse to take executive actions might eventually infringe on Congress’s authority.

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But underneath GOP lawmakers’ public support for the Republican president lies a budding skepticism about whether Mr. Trump will respect the role played by Congress in both overseeing the executive branch and providing funding for its initiatives. Republicans said Mr. Obama’s actions on immigration, health care and other matters usurped powers that rightfully belonged to Congress, and they are on watch for signs that Mr. Trump might do the same.

The onus is on Congress to strike early in this administration, maybe before President Trump becomes too fond of some of the authorities at his disposal,” said Todd Gaziano, senior fellow in constitutional law at the Pacific Legal Foundation, a conservative group formed decades ago by aides to former President Ronald Reagan, a Republican.

The orders to expedite construction of a wall are expected to require the Department of Homeland Security to use money in its existing budget, instead of requiring Congress to appropriate new money.

But eventually Mr. Trump will need money for construction and enforcement actions, potentially including new border agents, that will require increased government spending of the sort Congress—and not the executive branch—controls.

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1. Let his base build their Deplorable Wall out of mud bricks

they make with their own hands like Pharaoh's slaves.

How many voted for that shit multiplied by how many bricks each one can make each day? There's your manufacturing jobs, you alt-slave dummies.