The main thing about the Emergency Powers is that you have to have the funds already available. Universal health care would cost a hell of lot more than is in the military construction funds for 2018.
If you can find $33 trillion just laying around somewhere else in the budget then rock on dude!!! Go for it!!
Why would any future President do that? If it was colossal waste of taxpayer funds to build it the first place, wasting more money to tear it down would twice as colossally stupid. Unless President Harris/Warren/Booker/Biden/Gillibrand/Gabbard/Yang/Castro..perpetua ...declares that we truly do have wide open borders and hey come on in.
Might not be as difficult as you describe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Emergencies_Act
Emergency powers[edit]
Congress has delegated at least 136 distinct statutory emergency powers to the President upon the declaration of an emergency, with only 13 of these requiring a declaration from Congress.[15]
Emergency presidential powers are dramatic, and have ranged from suspending all laws regulating chemical and biological weapons, including the ban on human testing (50 U.S.C. § 1515, 1969); to suspending any Clean Air Act implementation plan or excess emissions penalty upon petition of a state governor (42 U.S.C. (f) § 7410 (f) 1977); to authorizing and constructing military construction projects (10 U.S.C. (a) § 2808 (a), 1982) using any existing defense appropriations for such military constructions ($10.4 billion in FY2018[16]); to drafting any retired Coast Guard officers (14 U.S.C. § 331, 1963) or enlisted members (14 U.S.C. § 359, 1949) into active duty.
Although the one mentioned about the "Clean Air Act" might interesting as it pertains to David's question about Climate Change. If a President can suspend a portion of an act of Congress surely a future President can reverse the previous use of Emergency Powers.
Guns might be more difficult than a wall. Gun ownership being an actual enumerated Constitutional right. Not to mention that the guys ordered to confiscate all the guns in America might have a little bit more difficult of a task than the guys who will build the wall.
Climate Change might be able to gain some traction. But, it would cost a lot of the people that donate big money to big political campaigns a bit of stress and money. Political suicide might be the words used in the aftermath.
I don't think you will have to wait that long. I think Trump declares National Emergency. Nancy has already said she will not negotiate the wall even he agrees to a deal for short term re-opening of the government. So Trump goes nuclear option and we get to see months of judicial wrangling before the Supreme Court lets him build the wall anyways.
I hope an offer of permanent status for the Dreamers might be made in the interim, and be enough to bring Nancy back to table. She could get something out of this for those kids. 5 billion is peanuts compared to the national budget. Wall will be built regardless.
Why would you do that? No need to engage with people that might disagree with you?
How . may I ask do you resolve issues with your fellow man? Say for instance at work. Do you just tell people at work , I have you on ignore?
My boss is a former Soviet Russian. Born in Slovakia, raised in and educated in Moscow. Should I be aware? Alarmed? Apparently I might be a traitor. Any contact with any Russian could be construed as treason!!
Hugo: throws a weak jab about a blowjob
Canada: slaps that off about triviality
Canada : makes some sort of response about treason.
Panch Negro: flies in the ring with a death drop of racism
Everyone must stop talking now. Or be labeled a racist.
Didn't seem to hurt Bill.
But people seem to forget. Bill didn't get impeached for a blow job. He got impeached for lying under oath. Also known as perjury.
OK , that's what they got from Manafort. Impressive number. 22.2 Miliion.
So far the Mueller investigation = 25 million.
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2018/dec/14/how-much-mueller-investigation-costing-updated/
Looks we are in a hole so far.
It's exactly the same thing and you know it.!!! Happens every day and no one on the hill wants to go down that path.
You know what I would like to see? All the payoffs for sexual harassment that tax payer money paid for congressman and senators that we aren't allowed to see. You wanna be pissed off about something, try that on and walk around the block with that shit on your shoulders.
Obama allegation was proven and they got a slap on the wrist. Largest FEC fine in history.
https://thepoliticalinsider.com/obama-fec-violation-largest-ever/
You think a bunch of Senators and Congressman who are lining their pockets with illegal campaign funds everyday are going to open up that Pandora's box?
No I don't think so in this case. No one has just decided to impeach on the grounds "I don't Like you or your politics". You will need a crime I'm pretty sure. Hell they got Slick Willie for perjury and they still couldn't get the job done.
So , basically you just believe Trump is a crook and nothing that happens from this colossal waste of tax payer money will result in anything that could actually make a difference to the poor bastards that are actually taking a shit on the sidewalks in San Francisco?
Obviously not you. LOL Where have you got the rest of your "news" or "actual malfeasance on his part" ? Evidence of a crime is still necessary for impeachment. Just because you don't like him or what he says is not a crime in this country..yet..
I don’t care what the Mueller report says, to be honest. I’m more interested in Mueller’s subsequent testimony before Congress.
I already have a pretty good idea of what happened but what I know means next to nothing.
Have to call bullshit (again) on the bolded part of your statement above,.So if Mueller says Trump is the Manchurian Candidate you wouldn't care? That is what you have spewing all over the Politics board for two years. Really?
Are you saying you won't believe the efficacy of the Mueller report when it comes down?
II don't know. There's a new Sheriff in town with Barr and the word is out on what has been a previously suspect, now proven leaky, Justice Department. Maybe some ass covering going on. Who knows if the Mueller team just threw Buzz Feed under the bus to cover their own butts before the new boss shows up.
All kinds of spin possible on what happened tonight.