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Pelosi tosses Trumps national emergency threat back in his face: A Dem president could declare an emergency too
BRENDAN SKWIRE
14 FEB 2019 AT 16:28 ET
ouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivered a warning to President Donald Trump and the Republican Party: declaring a national emergency over the border would only empower a Democratic president to do the same to accomplish their own pet goals.
Its important to note that when the president declares this emergency, first of all, its not an emergency, whats happening at the border. Its a humanitarian challenge to us, she said. The president has tried to sell a bill of goods to America.
Pelosi said that Trump was doing an end run around Congresss duly appointed power of the purse, as well as their oversight responsibility, and warned the Republicans that the presidents gambit may get him closer to his short term goals, but would have lasting consequences for their party when it inevitably blew up in their faces.
I know the Republicans have some unease about it, no matter what they say, Pelosi said. If the president can declare an emergency on something that he has created as an emergency, an illusion that he wants to convey, just think of what a president with different values can present to the American people.
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