Pelosi: House won't take up bill to overhaul national emergencies

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Wednesday that the House would not take up proposed Senate legislation to rein in national emergency powers, a bill put forward as part of an effort to give Republicans cover to side with President Trump on the border wall.

GOP senators are in talks with the White House about changing the National Emergencies Act, the 1976 law that Trump invoked to declare his national emergency to direct extra funding to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. That would give Senate Republicans uncomfortable with the national emergency room to avoid defying Trump.

Pelosi sought to make clear that wouldn't fly with House Democrats, issuing her statement on the eve of the expected Senate vote on a resolution disapproving of Trump's emergency declaration. The House passed that resolution late last month.

"Republican Senators are proposing new legislation to allow the President to violate the Constitution just this once in order to give themselves cover," Pelosi said in a statement. "The House will not take up this legislation to give President Trump a pass."

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/433828-pelosi-house-wont-take-up-senate-gop-bill-to-overhaul-national-emergencies?userid=229233

Well doesn't that just ruin the dotard's day