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The plan to have the president arrogate emergency powers (indefinitely?) and pillage the $5b set aside to rebuild Puerto Rico and manage flooding in California, all so he doesn't have to reach agreement with a duly elected House majority, is--as I think about things--not good.
What would be the logical endpoint of the imaginary emergency on the southern border that gives Trump his new power? When there's a thirty foot high fence running from the gulf to the Pacific Ocean? Some time before that? Who even decides when it's over?
"No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law" - Article I, Section 9
