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‘Turned His Back’ On The Constitution
Lee Moran, HuffPost • February 15, 2019

CNN's Anderson Cooper on Thursday explained why President Donald Trump

has"turned his back" on the Constitution with his plan to declare a
nationalemergency to secure funding for the U
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CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Thursday explained why

President Donald Trump has “turned his back” on the
Constitution with his plan to declare a national
emergency to secure funding for the U.S.-Mexico border
wall.

The host of “Anderson Cooper 360°” shared Article 1,

Section 9 of the Constitution, which states that “No
Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in
Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.” He then
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explained that Trump, who wants to use the possible
1229 declaration to circumvent the need to obtain funding
from Congress, had “just made his own political
difficulties over the border and the budget into a

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national emergency.”

Cooper also highlighted this old Trump tweet about Ann Coulter Hits Back at Trump: 'The Only
National Emergency Is That Our President Is an
former President Barack Obama: Idiot'
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Repubs must not allow Pres Obama to subvert the

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Trump is “starting down a path that could lead to a
showdown with Democrats and some Republicans in
Congress and a fight in the courts over what those words
in the Constitution really mean,” Cooper said.

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.@andersoncooper: Today the President turned his back

on the Constitution and his own words.

Call it his inability to fulfill a campaign promise, or to

negotiate with Congress, or his dissatisfaction with the
outcome, he made his political difficulties a national
emergency.
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