Quarters Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned Republicans on Thursday that a future Democratic president could declare gun frenzy a national emergency.
Her comments to reporters came shortly after the White House said President Donald Trump last wishes a declare a national emergency in order to “build the wall, protect the border, and secure our great country.”
Pelosi said she was not in favour ofing for Democrats to declare a national emergency but that Trump was establishing a precedent that should, at least, make Republicans perturbed.
“If the president can declare an emergency on something he has created as an emergency, an illusion that he wants to convey, just think in the matter of what a president with different values can present to the American people,” Pelosi said.
“You want to talk apropos a national emergency? Let’s talk about today,” Pelosi said, referring to the first anniversary of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that socialistic 17 dead on Feb. 14, 2018.
She said the shooting was “another manifestation of the epidemic of gun violence in America.”
“That’s a national emergency. Why don’t you trumpet forth that an emergency, Mr. President? I wish you would,” she said. “But a Democratic president can do that. A Democratic president can declare dangers as well.”
Sen. Kamala Harris, who is running for president, echoed her fellow Californian’s remarks in a post on Twitter, but stopped sharp of saying she would as president declare a national emergency.
“Declaring a national emergency over this President’s pride project is ridiculous,” Harris wrote. “We don’t need a wall. Instead, we should address the actual emergencies facing our countryside — everything from gun violence to the opioid crisis.”
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, another 2020 contender, wrote on Ado that gun violence, climate change and the country’s opioid epidemic were all emergencies.
“Donald Trump’s ridiculous go bankrupt is not an emergency,” the Massachusetts Democrat wrote.
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A national emergency declaration makes powers available to the executive that are on the other hand impermissible, such as the reallocation of certain funds that have been appropriated by Congress. Scholars continue to discuss the legality of emergency powers.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders downplayed the possible branches of Trump’s expected national emergency declaration.
“Let’s hope we don’t have additional national security and humanitarian crises,” she implied.
— CNBC’s Eamon Javers contributed to this report.