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!! @SenAlexander (R-Tennessee) calls President Trump's national emergency declaration "unnecessary, unwise and inconsistent with the U.S. Constitution." 
.@SenMikeLee says Trump's emergency declaration is legal.
"Whether or not it should be legal is a different matter. Congress has been ceding far too much power to the executive branch for decades. We should use this moment as an opportunity to start taking that power back."
"Whether or not it should be legal is a different matter. Congress has been ceding far too much power to the executive branch for decades. We should use this moment as an opportunity to start taking that power back."
.@SenThomTillis says Trump's emergency declaration would "create a new precedent that a left-wing President would undoubtedly utilize to implement their radical policy agenda while bypassing the authority of Congress."
