Communist Washington Democrat Adam Smith admitted on ABC’s left wing Sunday news show today that Trump could use the military to build a border wall if a national emergency is declared. This is likely to really piss off the left as they have been trying to claim that Trump can’t do exactly that. Thanks Adam! Trump could use money allocated to the Department of Defense to build the wall. And since the wall would such a small fraction of the amount of money given to the DoD on a year basis, it would make perfect sense. The Defense Department gets close to $700 billion per year. You could take $25 billion out of that and wouldn’t even make a dent in DoD spending to build the wall.
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Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” House Armed Service Committee chairman Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) said President Donald Trump does have the authority to declare a national emergency and have the military build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Host George Stephanopoulos asked, “Does President Trump have the ability, have the authority to declare a national emergency and have the military build his wall?”
Smith said, “Well, unfortunately, the short answer is yes. There is a provision in the law that says the president can declare an emergency. It’s been done a number of times, but primarily it’s been done to build facilities in Afghanistan and Iraq. In this case, I think the president would be wide open to a court challenge saying, where is the emergency? You have to establish that in order to do this. Beyond that, this would be a terrible use of Department of Defense dollars.”