Inslee on Trump’s Nat’l Emergency: We Need Republicans To Show Just a Little Bit of Strength of Character

‘It clearly is a contravention of basic norms of American democracy — ‘

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INSLEE: “Well, not if it is in clear contravention of the law passed by the United States Congress. There are provisions where emergencies require executive authority where Congress has not been able to act where they’re out of town and they need emergency responses. But it clearly is a contravention of basic norms of American democracy for Congress to pass an appropriation bill, identify what is legal and illegal, have the President say he just disagrees with that and countermand the entire authority of the United States Congress. We cannot allow that to happen and we need Republicans to show just a little bit of strength of character for the American Constitution when they vote on this in a— in a week or so.”

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