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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPhony Wall, Phony Emergency: The president plans to manage the border crisis from the golf course
The president plans to manage the border crisis from the golf course at Mar-a-Lago this weekend.By The Editorial Board Feb. 15, 2019
I didnt need to do this, President Trump insisted at a Rose Garden appearance on Friday, as he declared a national emergency aimed at shaking loose a few billion dollars in financing for his beloved border wall.
The presidents assertion was both ludicrous and self-defeating. If a declaration was unnecessary and the wall on track (the wall is very very on its way, the president said earlier in the week), how could he claim to be addressing an emergency? As Mr. Trump explained it, But Id rather do it much faster. A presidential desire for speed does not constitute a crisis no matter how eager a president is to camouflage his failures.
In reality, the wall is not a done deal, and Mr. Trump has spent the past few months the past two years, really failing to convince either Congress or Mexico to pay for it. This weeks bipartisan spending bill, which contained no more wall money than the one over which Mr. Trump shut down the government in December, was a particularly humiliating defeat.
Desperate to save face, the president and his team cooked up a nonemergency emergency with the aim of seizing funds already appropriated for other purposes. Currently, the plan is to pull $2.5 billion from the militarys drug interdiction program, $3.6 billion from its construction budget and $600 million from the Treasury Departments drug forfeiture fund. The White House plans to backfill the money it is taking from the Pentagon in future budgets.
And so, in a breathtaking display of executive disregard for the separation of powers, the White House is thumbing its nose at Congress, the Constitution and the will of the American people, the majority of whom oppose a border wall.
The presidents assertion was both ludicrous and self-defeating. If a declaration was unnecessary and the wall on track (the wall is very very on its way, the president said earlier in the week), how could he claim to be addressing an emergency? As Mr. Trump explained it, But Id rather do it much faster. A presidential desire for speed does not constitute a crisis no matter how eager a president is to camouflage his failures.
In reality, the wall is not a done deal, and Mr. Trump has spent the past few months the past two years, really failing to convince either Congress or Mexico to pay for it. This weeks bipartisan spending bill, which contained no more wall money than the one over which Mr. Trump shut down the government in December, was a particularly humiliating defeat.
Desperate to save face, the president and his team cooked up a nonemergency emergency with the aim of seizing funds already appropriated for other purposes. Currently, the plan is to pull $2.5 billion from the militarys drug interdiction program, $3.6 billion from its construction budget and $600 million from the Treasury Departments drug forfeiture fund. The White House plans to backfill the money it is taking from the Pentagon in future budgets.
And so, in a breathtaking display of executive disregard for the separation of powers, the White House is thumbing its nose at Congress, the Constitution and the will of the American people, the majority of whom oppose a border wall.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/15/opinion/trump-border-wall-national-emergency.html
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Phony Wall, Phony Emergency: The president plans to manage the border crisis from the golf course (Original Post)
workinclasszero
Feb 2019
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Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)1. Did anyone every think this is just
another sack of shit being thrown by a 72 year old brat in order watch what peoples reactions might be. Dipstick Donnie has been a shit bag thrower his whole life.
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)2. Phony President....
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)3. Yep
Putin sure got his money's worth from traitor turd Trump!