Republicans face big test on Trump's 'national emergency'
By Julian Zelizer, CNN Political Analyst
Updated 4:19 PM ET, Mon February 25, 2019
On Tuesday, House Republicans will take a crucial vote that will mark what the party is becoming at this crossroads in American history ... Trump has invoked national emergency power to secure federal funds for a wall that Congress refused to pay for. He has done so based on an alleged crisis .. that almost no reputable expert agrees is real ...
... if .. Trump takes this step to finance a border wall, future presidents in both parties will have sufficient justification to enact policy to tackle their goals .. without congressional support.
Congress has the power to stop .. Trump if it wants to ... f the House and Senate vote for a resolution revoking this use of emergency power, with sufficient votes to override an expected presidential veto, Trump has to back down ...
In announcing the deal to reopen the government, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced his support for the President turning to emergency power -- only days after expressing his staunch opposition to such a move.
This week's vote might be the most important of all these enabling moments. If the Republicans don't vote to stand between Trump and this aggressive use of presidential power, they are giving consent to the President to unilaterally siphon money from programs that Congress has funded into a program that Congress refused to support ...
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/25/opinions/national-emergency-vote-zelizer/index.html
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