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We are talking about Trump using the Emergencies Act to get something Congress would NOT give him. A poster said Obama did the same thing and he clearly did not.
In fact, I cannot find the case of a single president who used that same law to get something that Congress earlier turned him down on. Not one.
Again, because I know this is a difficult concept to wrap your head around, congress already appropriated the funds Trump is proposing to use for the wall. While it's true that those funds were not previously allocated to the wall they already existed in the budget. All Trump did is say, "Instead of paying for x we're going to pay for y". He would be FAR from the only president to do that.
You guys are saying that congress has to allocate every dime the executive spends. That's not the way it has EVER been. I mean, did congress authorize Obama to send $1.7 Billion cash to Tehran before he did it?
The United States, Iran, and $1.7 billion: Sorting out the details