Omar: Next president should declare national emergency on climate change 'on day 1'

[workinclasszero]

BY TAL AXELROD - 02/15/19 02:26 PM EST

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) called on the next president to declare a national emergency on climate change “on day 1” after President Trump made the same declaration to appropriate funds for a border wall.

“Our next President should declare a #NationalEmergency on day 1 to address the existential threat to all life on the planet posed by Climate Change,” Omar, an outspoken critic of Trump, tweeted Friday.

The president’s declaration is likely to draw a court challenge, and Republicans on Capitol Hill had privately and publicly urged Trump to avoid such a move, fearing a future Democratic president could declare a national emergency on climate change, gun control or other liberal priorities.

Trump first said Thursday he would announce the national emergency to beef up funding for a barrier on the southern border, a move that swiftly drew the rebukes of Democrats who slammed the move as an unnecessary overstep.

“An outrageous abuse of power—not to mention waste of taxpayer dollars—if he goes through with this ludicrous idea. Drop the absurd wall and do your job,” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), one of several senators running for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, tweeted prior to the official declaration.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/430252-omar-next-president-to-declare-national-emergency-on-climate-change-on-day-1

[klook]

1. Damn right.

That's the real national emergency. The real global emergency. It's World War III, actually, and the whole planet needs to fight that war together. Otherwise we're condemning our children and grandchildren to a hellish future.

[ffr]

2. Better yet, laying down the law on treason. That would catch up 63 million Putin loving traitors.

Then we could set about the difficult job of being responsible for managing our home, which will need to include some form of population management, and soon.

[c-rational]

3. Bingo!

[samnsara]

4. Im thinking that on Day 1 our next Dem President must get on the phone...

..to all the world leaders and start setting up meetings on how to undo all the shit trump has done. Climate change may have to wait until the new leader averts WW3.



so.....the next Prez will have to have all these skills BEFORE he or she takes the oath. No beginners. We have NO time for any learning curve.

[standingtall]

5. And when the supreme court overturns Roe V Wade

declare a national emergency to usurp the supreme court.

[workinclasszero]

6. Those bastards STOLE a seat from us in the first place and we did NOTHING!

The next democratic president needs to get that back, and I do not give a DAMN how they do it!!!

[Renew Deal]

8. It's at least 3 if you count 2000

Really 4

[workinclasszero]

9. Stole a Presidential election as well

And we keep letting the republicans get away with it!

[Renew Deal]

7. Declare a national emergency on climate change, health, and guns. Then declare one to...

Stop the protests, and elemininate congress because why not. Go full dictator. Actually, make that king of the Andalls and the first men.

[Brawndo]

10. They should bend the knee, after all, winter is coming.

Couldn't resist.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

11. a global emergency must also be a national emergency

I'm not sure how the declaration of a national emergency would help in dealing with the climate crisis, but it wouldn't be a fake emergency, at least.

[dansolo]

12. No president should abuse that authority

It is no better for our side to do it, because then we are legitimizing Trump's actions.

[workinclasszero]

13. So republicans get to do it with no consequences

But Democrats must remain pure of heart huh?

Republicans steal a SCOTUS seat but we must do nothing about it.

Republican President doesn’t get what he wants from Congress so he goes around it and gets what he wants.

But democrats must never do the same.

Guess who’s going to win in the end?

It’s not hard to figure out.