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mojo84 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 15, 2019 9:04 pm Will he be spending unappropriated money or redirecting money appropriated for other less important or less urgent causes?

Either way we are destroying the principle that Congress controls the purse strings. When presidents can spend what they want on what they want despite Congress, our system of government is shot.

Syntyr wrote: ↑Fri Feb 15, 2019 11:00 am Obama declared 13 National emergencies and 11 of them are still in effect.

What I've never heard discussed is how many previous emergency declarations involved spending unappropriated money? That's the real issue here. As an example why, I'm now hearing that a future Democratic president might declare a climate change emergency and start enforcing something along the lines of the Green New Deal, otherwise known as the Great New Steal.

As much as I'd like to see increased border security, including a wall or other barrier, I fear using an emergency declaration to accomplish that will be a terrible precedent, and I oppose it for that reason.

That said, it's not clear to me how Pelosi's specific threat would work. Would a Democratic president enact gun control or confiscation by executive order based on an emergency declaration? If so, the court's would surely strike that down as being unsupported by legislative authority--for so long as we still have courts in the least interested in retaining our constitutional system. And if the courts no longer want to preserve the constitutional system, the ball game is over one way or the orher.