As the February 15 deadline inches closer, White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney pointed to the likelihood that President Donald Trump will unilaterally force funding to be allotted to his border wall.
“…If Congress won’t participate or won’t go along, we’ll figure out a way to do it with executive authority. With, and let’s be clear about this, legal executive authority,” Mulvaney told Fox News’ Sean Hannity. “This is not a circumstance of the President overstepping his bounds.”
Though a bipartisan group in Congress has been trying to forge a compromise, Trump has said many times that he thinks the effort is in vain and feels he has the complete authority to declare a national emergency to fulfill his campaign promise.
Watch here:
Mulvaney says that Trump will use executive action for the border wall if Congress doesn't play by his rules pic.twitter.com/Rc3fKcG1hI
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Nope.
I believe the appropriate response here is: Spin Spin Sugar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjBwe6IL10oIs he going to do it by royal decree? Is he going to carve a commandment in stone? Will he declare martial law? And will the fascistgop back his anti-democratic power play?
Inquiring minds want to know.
If Obama pulled an emergency declaration out of the blue like Trump Mulvaney would have pulled a gun on him and accused him of being a traitor. Freedom Caucus stooges have no loyalty except to themselves.
Power has been accruing to the Executive for decades. When was the last declared war, something the Constitution mandates as a role for Congress? Authority over spending is about the last power left to them. If they permit this President or any President to spend money that they specifically refused to authorize, Congress might as shut down for good.