Thursday on the Senate floor, Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer President Donald Trump declaring a national emergency to build a wall on the Mexican border would be “a lawless act.”
“If President Trump’s decides to go forward with a disaster declaration he will be making a tremendous mistake,” Schumer said. “Declaring a national emergency would be a lawless act, a gross abuse of the power of the presidency, and a desperate attempt to distract from the fact that President Trump broke his core promise that to have Mexico pay for the wall. It would be another demonstration of President Trump’s naked contempt of the rule of the law and congressional authority.”
“Congress just debated this very issue. There was no support for the president’s position. Congressional intent on this issue is very clear. The president’s wall has been before Congress several times and has never guarded enough votes to even merit consideration. For the president to declare an emergency now would be unprecedented subversion of Congresses constitutional prerogative,” he said
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