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My point isn’t to pile on the GOP’s shortcomings or even Trump’s failure to deliver on something he insisted would be easy to do (and he said it would be easy to get Mexico to pay for it).
My point is that declaring a national state of emergency to use military powers to solve a problem that was no less “grave” a year ago is grotesque. As I noted yesterday, the real crisis isn’t a national-security one, it’s a political one for Trump. And even if you favor a wall or enhanced border security that is not an argument for the president formally declaring a national emergency when there isn’t one and deploying the military without congressional approval on American soil.
That would be a serious abuse of power, and Congress shouldn’t stand for it — one way, or another.
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— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) January 8, 2019
True. Though an even greater danger would come if Trump abused emergency authority this way and Congress *didn't* take it away. https://t.co/mSm1evdbgD
— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) January 8, 2019
Healthy attitude here. I am a "saboteur" for expressing an opinion in opposition to a POTUS deploying military force on U.S. soil under the color of a manufactured crisis in order to seize private property at gunpoint. Seems you should probably unfollow me lest you be infected. https://t.co/1DyvkgTDsJ
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) January 8, 2019
Couple problems: 1) The whole point of declaring an emergency is that there's no "letting" involved 2) Why would he stop at $5 billion when the actual costs are well North of that? Once you declared a national emergency, it'd be illogical to stop short of completion, no? https://t.co/AlUony3iVS
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) January 8, 2019
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