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H. Res. _ — Directing certain committees to continue their ongoing investigations as part of the existing House of Representatives inquiry into whether sufficient grounds exist for the House of Representatives to exercise its Constitutional power to impeach Donald John Trump, President …

President Trump’s emergency declaration proclamation undermines the separation of powers and Congress’s power of the purse, a power exclusively reserved by the text of the Constitution to the first branch of government, the Legislative branch, a branch co-equal to the Executive.

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This morning, President Trump unlawfully declared a national emergency over a crisis at the border that does not exist.  The President himself even admitted that he “didn’t need to” declare an emergency but did so because he wanted to construct the border wall “much faster.”  This is a power gra…