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fleur-de-lisa

(14,628 posts)
Tue Mar 12, 2019, 03:17 PM Mar 2019

McConnell open to narrowing national emergency law Trump is using to pay for the wall

Abby D. Phillip ✔ @abbydphillip (CNN)

McConnell open to narrowing national emergency law Trump is using to pay for the wall: "We’re looking at some ways to revisit the law....is this grant of authority to any president, not just this one, but any president, was it too broad back in the seventies when it was passed."

2:08 PM - Mar 12, 2019


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McConnell open to narrowing national emergency law Trump is using to pay for the wall (Original Post) fleur-de-lisa Mar 2019 OP
Fuck off. Mitch, too late htuttle Mar 2019 #1
Get your caucus (and the House GOP caucus) to vote to terminate Trumps declaration onenote Mar 2019 #2
he has discovered a democratic president can use it also nt msongs Mar 2019 #3

htuttle

(23,738 posts)
1. Fuck off. Mitch, too late
Tue Mar 12, 2019, 03:19 PM
Mar 2019

We're are totally going to declare emergencies over gun violence and climate change first chance we get.

onenote

(42,817 posts)
2. Get your caucus (and the House GOP caucus) to vote to terminate Trumps declaration
Tue Mar 12, 2019, 03:21 PM
Mar 2019

by a veto-proof margin and then we'll talk.

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