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I would just note, the president has been making the case that there's a national emergency for the past several weeks during the shutdown, and congress then acted. congress appropriated money and said, here, you have $1.375 billion to build 55 miles of fence. no more, no less. and so, when you look at the national emergencies act, the reason that exists is the idea that there might be an attack on the country or a natural disaster and that the congress would not have time to react to that, the president ought to be able to spend money to react to things like that, between appropriations seaso...

Shutdown and congress then acted. congress appropriated money and said you have $1.375 billion to build 55 miles of fence. no more, no less. when you look at the national emergencies act, the reason that exists is the idea there might be an attack on country or natural disaster and the congress would not have time to react to that. the president ought to be able to spend money to react to things like that between appropriations seasons. in this case he made that case for an emergency. congress denied him the funds that he caught and now he's going to go ahead and take existing appropriations t...

Last several weeks during the shutdown and congress then acted. congress appropriated money and said you have $1.375 billion to build 55 miles of fence. no more, no less. when you look at the national emergencies act, the reason that exists is the idea there might be an attack on country or natural disaster and the congress would not have time to react to that. the president ought to be able to spend money to react to things like that between appropriations seasons. in this case he made that case for an emergency. congress denied him the funds that he caught and now he's going to go ahead and ...