EatTheRich
President
Calling Mexicans rapists and drug dealers is a white supremacist position.
Senate votes to terminate Trump national emergency as 12 Rs join Ds in rebuke to the
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EatTheRich
President
I don’t think anywhere in the New World was as advanced as Mogadishu was in 1492. But be that as it may, the state of Somalia and of Native America today is pretty sorry, especially compared with how advanced both places were 500 years ago.
miketx
Council Member
Thank you for confirming you have no proof.
miketx
Council Member
You support them.
EatTheRich
President
I support human rights for people of all races.
EatTheRich
President
That is proof. Unless the laws of supply and demand somehow don’t apply to labor.
miketx
Council Member
You say it's proof, I say it's your opinion.
Nostra
Governor
More than half the illegals caught coming in from Canada are Mexican.
D
Deleted member 21794
Guest
Because there are less people invading our border illegally there.
EatTheRich
President
Because if you’re white, it’s probably not illegal. And because the U.S. hasn’t systematically ruined Canada the way it has Mexico.
This thread is about the border wall between Mexico and the USA.
Please try to keep up.
Nostra
Governor
I wasn’t addressing you, Troll.
I rec'd my thank you letter from Portman. It's a pretty slick balancing act.
Dear Julia,
Thank you for contacting me regarding the president’s national emergency declaration. I wanted to get back to you right away and tell you how I voted and why. I strongly support the President’s plan at the border, but want to do it without the bad precedent of an emergency declaration. I voted in favor of the resolution of disapproval.
I do believe we have a crisis at our border—a humanitarian crisis, a trafficking crisis, and a drug crisis. I support fully funding the plan that the president outlined. The $5.7 billion that the President requested for walls and other barriers funds the top 10 priorities of the Border Security Improvement Plan identified by the government’s border security experts.
The good news is that he can access these funds without invoking the national emergency. Congress provided the president with $1.375 billion for the wall. He also can use $601 million from the Treasury Forfeiture Fund. Furthermore, the Defense appropriations bill allows him to transfer up to $4 billion for counter-narcotics programs which can be used for barriers and fencing. In total, he has access to almost $6 billion to fund his border plan without declaring a national emergency. That surpasses the $5.7 billion he requested on January 6, 2019.
Declaring a national emergency to access different funds sets a dangerous new precedent. This use of national emergency powers to circumvent Congress’s explicit decision on funding is unprecedented. No president has ever used the National Emergencies Act in this way. As a result, it opens the door for future presidents to implement just about any policy they want, and take funding from other areas Congress has decided on, without Congress’s approval.
Once a president declares an emergency, he or she has access to nearly unlimited power. A future president could seize industries or can control means of communication—like the internet. A future president may well say that climate change is a national emergency and use emergency authorities to implement the Green New Deal. Future presidents could use this authority to tear down the very wall we are now constructing – and some Democrats running for president have said that’s what they want to do.
The President is using the National Emergencies Act to take funds away from military construction projects, placing funding at risk for NASIC at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, an automated multipurpose machine gun range at Camp James A. Garfield, a fire station replacement at Mansfield Lahm Airport, a small arms range at Rickenbacker International Airport, and a main gate relocation project at Youngstown Air Reserve Station. Only twice before have presidents declared a national emergency in order to transfer military construction funds away from their congressionally-designated projects to other priorities. In both of those situations, we were at war, and the Secretary of Defense transferred the funds to support the war effort and Congress did not object.
I have worked on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. I know how hard it can be for presidents and Congress to find the balance between the executive and legislative branches. Our government has a system of checks and balances. It gives some powers to the president, and some powers to Congress. But our founders drew a clear line on one thing: Congress, closest to the people, would have the power of the purse. Each one of us in this body has sworn an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. And to uphold that oath, I voted for the resolution disapproving the emergency declaration.
Again, thank you for contacting me on this issue. This was a very important vote, and your input meant a lot to me as I made my decision.
Sincerely,
Rob Portman
U.S. Senator
Bear Claw
President
This is a public forum.
Nostra
Governor
So much for that.
EatTheRich
President
Yup. It was a good Constitution while it lasted.
Nostra
Governor
EatTheRich
President
The president unilaterally dispenses with separation of powers and usurps Congressional authority on the pretext of a nonexistent emergency. I guess that is how our system works ... now.
Nostra
Governor
There is a duly passed statute giving the President that authority.
Sorry for your ignorance.
