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National Emergency? (Original Post) apcalc Feb 2019 OP
Yup Blue Owl Feb 2019 #1
There are 31 "national emergencies" currently in effect... PoliticAverse Feb 2019 #2
No, he cannot just pull funds from anywhere. onenote Feb 2019 #3

Blue Owl

(50,448 posts)
1. Yup
Thu Feb 14, 2019, 07:44 PM
Feb 2019

Dumbassery is not Democracy.

Stick a fork in him and his stupid demands -- all of which, by the way, are just grifting tactics to put money in his cronie's pockets...

onenote

(42,724 posts)
3. No, he cannot just pull funds from anywhere.
Thu Feb 14, 2019, 08:15 PM
Feb 2019

It's a lot more complicated than a lot of the off the cuff comments about it would suggest.

A good place to start is this CRS Report:https://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/98-505.pdf

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