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Pelosi to block Trump's emergency wood chipper processing plan


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2019 Feb 15, 4:11am   517 views  0 comments

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House Democrats to challenge Trump’s emergency declaration; Republicans divided on action

House Democrats are gearing up to pass a joint resolution disapproving of President Trump’s emergency declaration to build his U.S.-Mexico border wall, a move that will force Senate Republicans to vote on a contentious issue that divides their party.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said Thursday evening in an interview with The Washington Post that the House would take up the resolution in the coming days or weeks. The measure is expected to easily clear the Democratic-led House, and because it would be privileged, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) would be forced to put the resolution to a vote that he could lose.

“This is a gross abuse of presidential power,” Nadler said of the news that Trump would declare a national emergency to try to move money around to fulfill one of his central campaign promises. “This is an attempt to overturn the basic constitutional doctrine of separation of powers. Congress has the power of the purse. It cannot be tolerated.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) cautioned Thursday that no final decision had been made on the matter. A senior Democratic aide said the party’s strategy would depend on the wording of Trump’s declaration.

But House Democrats have been anticipating for weeks a move by the president to try to circumvent Congress and unilaterally move funds around. And they’ve privately laid out a tentative plan to move a resolution rebuking Trump as well as a potential legal challenge for what they see as unprecedented executive overreach.

If their resolution fails to pass the Senate or is be vetoed by Trump, the House would probably sue. Rep. Jamie B. Raskin (D-Md.), a House Judiciary Committee member, said his discussions with House lawyers had centered around a 1952 Supreme Court ruling, Youngstown Sheet and Tube v. Sawyer, in which the court rejected President Harry Truman’s attempt to seize and operate the nation’s steel mills to avert a strike.

“They’re about to make the steel seizure decision the most famous Supreme Court case in Washington for the next couple months,” Raskin said about House lawyers. “The Supreme Court said a red light from Congress is a red light from Congress, and you can’t run a red.”

But the most immediate consequence of House Democrats’ move to force Republicans to take a position on Trump’s declaration is a major political headache for the GOP — and potentially the president. The party is deeply divided on the merits of Trump’s decision, and there’s a real possibility that some moderate Republicans could join with Democrats to rebuke their own leader.

Republicans hold a 53-to-47 advantage, but the resolution would only need a simple majority to pass.

In fact, when Trump privately told McConnell before this week that he was going to declare a national emergency, the Kentucky Republican talked him out of it — at least for a time. McConnell endorsed Trump’s plans on Thursday, but just days ago he privately warned the president that his party could turn on him over this matter.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pelosi-warns-trump-republicans-against-emergency-declaration-on-border-funding/2019/02/14/cf6f492c-3099-11e9-86ab-5d02109aeb01_story.html?utm_term=.47adf96520fd

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