But now that it's twice upon a time, House leader Pelosi(D) will only pee on Trump's trousers.
What to do? What to do? President Trump has declared that he might use the National Emergencies Act (NEA), then spend defense department money and military manpower to build the fence / wall. The NEA was enacted by Congress and signed into law by Gerald Ford(R) in 1976. It's been enacted 58 times by various presidents. Thirty-one of those national emergencies remain in effect.
Trump has already invoked national emergency powers on three occasions. Did you know that? But now we're all gonna die because Trump is the worst tyrant evah who might declare the 59th national emergency since 1976 and build the fence / wall.
If Trump does, wait 5 seconds for the interminable lawsuits from Lefties who openly proclaim allegience to open borders, plus all the push back from the land owners angry about emminant domain confiscating huge swaths of their land.
What to do? According a recently released report by the non-partisan (cough cough) Congressional Research Service, Trump can build the fence / wall without declaring an emergency.
“A rarely mentioned alternative, one not subject to the kind of legal analysis as an action under the NEA, would be for the president to act under several existing statutes — a move which would not be subject to the NEA's congressional termination provision since it does not require a declaration of any emergency,” said Banzhaf’s analysis."
This basically means Trump can invoke national security, instead of a national emergency, then instruct the Secretary of Defense to use military money and manpower, or employ civilian contractors, to build the fence / wall. But it appears there are strict spending caps, and tight definitions on where this construction can occur.
However, if Trump does invoke national security, wait 5 seconds for the interminable lawsuits from Lefties who openly proclaim allegience to open borders, plus all the push back from the land owners angry about emminant domain confiscating huge swaths of their land.
Golly. If Only the Republicans Controlled the House & Senate Like They Did Before the Mid-terms, then Trump Would Get...
Hey. Or it could be that all this is conniving off-broadway kabuki theater with a $4 trillion annual budget and on the fly stage blocking by the director, while the script is re-worked for the 54th time, in as many years, but you can't get a ticket because Hart-Cellers scammed 'em all off StubHub, so all you can hope for is a second hand review in the NY Times or low rez interweb images, since no scalpers will give you the time of day and the stage manager ain't slippin' you in the sidedoor with those slacker clothes, and razor thin wallet, so suck it up, buttercup, and find a safe space.
Wall? We doan need no steenking wall. The show must go on!
