The communist Democrats and their propaganda ministers in the media are trying to pretend that once Trump declares a national emergency to construct the border wall, it will be something never done before. Only problem is, there have been over 50 national emergencies declared by sitting presidents since it became a law in 1976. And here’s the really funny part. Obama, King Putz himself declared a whopping 13 national emerngecies to fund various projects hat congress wouldn’t. Yet, I’ll bet you didn’t know or ever hear about that did you?
Not only did Obama declare 13 national emergencies during his reign of terror, 11 of the those national emergencies are still active today, a full two years since Obama has been kicked out of the White House. Bill Clinton used this authority 17 times. When Trump declares his national emergency for border wall construction, it will be his fourth declared national emergency. Most of Obama’s national emergencies were focused on blocking property or prohibiting transactions/travel for individuals engaged in various activities in — by order of the date of enactment — Somalia, Libya, transnational criminal organizations, Yemen, Ukraine, South Sudan, Central African Republic, Venezuela and Burundi.
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If President Donald Trump uses the U.S. military to build the border wall along the United States’ international with Mexico by declaring a national emergency, won’t liberals simply run to a Federal judge whom they believe to be left-wing within the Ninth Circuit and block Trump? Can Congress vote to overturn Trump’s declaration of an emergency?
No. If the federal courts actually follow the law, President Trump cannot be prevented from “reprogramming” funds appropriated for the U.S. Department of Defense and actually using the military (such as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) to build the border wall.
As noted in the first installment on this topic, Congress has given a president the power to declare a national emergency by 50 U.S.C. 1621 and 50 U.S.C. 1622. A declaration of an emergency allows the President to reprogram funds in the military budget. See 33 U.S. Code § 2293 “Reprogramming during national emergencies.”
Trump could reprogram funds from other parts of the Department of Defense budget — including from other DoD construction projects such as on bases, military housing, etc. — and engage in construction in areas of need for the national defense. The statute says that explicitly (although statutes are never easy reading).