Pelosi Cheers Senate Joining House In Rejecting Trump’s ‘Unlawful Power Grab’

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) cheered her Senate colleagues for joining the House in rejecting President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration Thursday afternoon.

“The Congress has now voted on an overwhelming and bipartisan basis to reject President Trump’s effort to ignore the Constitution with his sham emergency declaration.

President Trump’s emergency declaration is an unlawful power grab that does violence to the Constitution and fundamentally alters the separation of powers.

This is not an emergency, and the Congress has declared in a strong bipartisan voice that the President’s fearmongering doesn’t make it one.”

Trump is expected to veto the bill, his first since taking office.

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  1. Madame Speaker says “Take fucking THAT, Donald, you tiny-fingered punk…”

  2. Avatar for pshah pshah says:

    “‘Violence’ to the Constitution”. Interesting choice of verb, especially considering he’s probably never read it.

    Definitely appropriate, though, in light of Trump’s comments today about the police, military, and Trump bikers being on his side against the liberals

  3. Avatar for caltg caltg says:

    The real emergency is Trump’s flouting of Constitutional requirements of our government and those who serve in it. His “Declaration of National Emergency” which indeed does do “violence to the Constitution” is itself a true national emergency.

  4. Nancy Pelosi excels in dropping nuanced messaging bombs.

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