to. the president will have a real problem when it comes to democrats unlike the first two years, democrats hold actual power in washington so speaker pelosi today said she may challenge an emergency decoloration, from trump in court. there may be a resolution in congress to block the president s emergency decoloration, if pelosi passed that in the house, it would force a vote on that same resolution in the senate and because the republicans are divided on this idea of a national emergency stunt for the wall, such a resolution might actually pass the senate, too, which would have the effect of blocking the president s emergency decoloration. even more immediately, if the emergency decoloration, is supposed to give the president the ability to take money from somewhere without congress so he could use that money to build the wall, well, it s important to know the money wouldn t just becoming from thin air and somewhere in the abstract, if the president does try to use this decoloration,
the government from shutting down tomorrow. we re told to expect the president to sign the bill but will declare a national emergency to try to runaround congress and just take the funds he needs to build a border wall, maybe from the money that congress has appropriated to the military for other purposes or from money congress appropriated for disaster relief. in light of the news today, it s hard not to wonder whether democratic congressman has a wrestle ball. he introduced legislation that would block president trump from raiding funds otherwise put aside for disaster relief. the kind of relief that his state, california relies on to fight wildfires and floods that was two days ago. today congressman doubled down saying quote, i introduced legislation this week in anticipation of this news that would prevent the president from doing this. i am going to fight like hell for it. joining us now is congressman john garamendi from the great state of california.
that we will not have another federal government shutdown starting tomorrow. because the president did not succeed in using that last long shutdown, nor the threat of another shutdown tomorrow, because that was not a successful tactic for the president to try to force u.s. taxpayers to pay for a wall between the u.s. and mexico, the white house now says that although the president will sign this bill that has just passed the house in the last couple minutes, although they say the president will sign this bill that passed the senate and passed the house to keep the government open, the white house says the president will also in addition to that simultaneously declare an emergency, a national emergency. so he can raid military funds, especially to build a wall on his own despite the wishes of congress. now grain of salt here. the white house says that s what the president is going to do, right? they say that he s going to sign
they have ever been since 1950. so the emergency issue is not there. and there is tomorrow. and there is the day after tomorrow. the president is going to submit his budget. we rebudget. we re going to take that under advisement, and i will tell you if he were to do an emergency and rip off fundamental projects that protect the citizens in my communities and in puerto rico and other parts of this nation, he will pay a price ongoing into the future because we do have ultimately the power of the purse if there is to be some sort of formal effort in the congress to try to block the president from declaring this emergency, if there is some sort of resolution under the emergency act that would allow congress to do this, is that the sort of thing you would expect republican support on or do you think this would be another issue which republicans sort of put aside their concerns and decided to stand with the president? i think it depends on exactly what the president does.
have an immediate court fight one that he wouldn t be expected to win but now that it s happening, even before we get to those court fights, what we re watching for tonight is the prospect this emergency decoloration, if he does sign one maybe never get as far as the courts. under the national emergencies act, congress can contest an emergency decoloration, from a president. thank you post watergate reforms. and a congress that was embarrassed by and terrified about the terrible presidency of richard nixon and just how much worse things might have gotten under him or some day might get under a president worse. thanks to post waiter gate reforms and the national emergencies act today under that law. if nancy pelosi has the house pass a resolution contesting the fact that trump has declared this emergency in order to build his wall, if pelosi did that, what would happen after the