Trump's Use of 10 Emergency Declarations to Justify His Actions

[Pyrite]

How Trump Used 10 Emergency Declarations to Justify Hundreds of Actions

The president has declared 10 emergencies since returning to office, far outpacing what is typical. He has used them to justify hundreds of actions.

www.nytimes.com

In his seven months back in office, President Trump has declared nine national emergencies, plus a “crime emergency” in Washington. Those emergency declarations have been used to justify hundreds of actions — including immigration measures, sweeping tariffs and energy deregulation — that would typically require congressional approval or lengthy regulatory review, according to a New York Times analysis of presidential documents....

All presidents have the authority under the National Emergencies Act, a post-Watergate law, to declare a national emergency to enable the federal government to respond quickly to a crisis. But Mr. Trump has already invoked this power much more frequently than his predecessors and, experts say, for situations that do not qualify as true emergencies....

Mr. Trump’s use of emergency powers in this term has far outpaced what is typical. On average — between Ronald Reagan’s inauguration in January 1981 and the start of Mr. Trump’s second term this year — presidents declared about seven national emergencies per four-year term, according to a Times analysis of data from the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan think tank focused on democracy. Mr. Trump declared that many in his first month back in office....

 

[Pyrite]

...Immigration Emergencies

On the first day of his second term, Mr. Trump declared two national emergencies related to immigration.

Just as he did during his first term, Mr. Trump claimed that an “invasion” of “illegal aliens” constituted a national emergency along the U.S.-Mexico border. This move allowed him to unilaterally unlock federal funding for border wall construction and to empower the military to support the Border Patrol.

In a separate order, he used the border emergency to give the military specific responsibility for immigration enforcement. A few months later, he issued another directive, turning a narrow strip of federal border land along the Mexican border in California, Arizona and New Mexico into a military installation under the jurisdiction of the Pentagon.

Mr. Trump’s second immigration-related national emergency declaration called for a crackdown on major drug cartels. In it, he directed the State Department to start labeling drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, saying they “constitute a national security threat beyond that posed by traditional organized crime” and that the United States would “ensure the total elimination” of the groups.

This month, The Times reported that Mr. Trump had secretly signed a directive to the Pentagon to begin using military force against certain Latin American drug cartels that had been deemed terrorist organizations....

 

[Hari Seldon]

How Trump Used 10 Emergency Declarations to Justify Hundreds of Actions

The president has declared 10 emergencies since returning to office, far outpacing what is typical. He has used them to justify hundreds of actions.

www.nytimes.com

In his seven months back in office, President Trump has declared nine national emergencies, plus a “crime emergency” in Washington. Those emergency declarations have been used to justify hundreds of actions — including immigration measures, sweeping tariffs and energy deregulation — that would typically require congressional approval or lengthy regulatory review, according to a New York Times analysis of presidential documents....

All presidents have the authority under the National Emergencies Act, a post-Watergate law, to declare a national emergency to enable the federal government to respond quickly to a crisis. But Mr. Trump has already invoked this power much more frequently than his predecessors and, experts say, for situations that do not qualify as true emergencies....

Mr. Trump’s use of emergency powers in this term has far outpaced what is typical. On average — between Ronald Reagan’s inauguration in January 1981 and the start of Mr. Trump’s second term this year — presidents declared about seven national emergencies per four-year term, according to a Times analysis of data from the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan think tank focused on democracy. Mr. Trump declared that many in his first month back in office....

Imagine the howling from the magidiots if Biden did this.

 

[Phys251]

How Trump Used 10 Emergency Declarations to Justify Hundreds of Actions

The president has declared 10 emergencies since returning to office, far outpacing what is typical. He has used them to justify hundreds of actions.

www.nytimes.com

In his seven months back in office, President Trump has declared nine national emergencies, plus a “crime emergency” in Washington. Those emergency declarations have been used to justify hundreds of actions — including immigration measures, sweeping tariffs and energy deregulation — that would typically require congressional approval or lengthy regulatory review, according to a New York Times analysis of presidential documents....

All presidents have the authority under the National Emergencies Act, a post-Watergate law, to declare a national emergency to enable the federal government to respond quickly to a crisis. But Mr. Trump has already invoked this power much more frequently than his predecessors and, experts say, for situations that do not qualify as true emergencies....

Mr. Trump’s use of emergency powers in this term has far outpaced what is typical. On average — between Ronald Reagan’s inauguration in January 1981 and the start of Mr. Trump’s second term this year — presidents declared about seven national emergencies per four-year term, according to a Times analysis of data from the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan think tank focused on democracy. Mr. Trump declared that many in his first month back in office....

This is exactly the kind of out-of-control presidency that the Founders accounted for. What they didn't account for was a spineless Congress and a corrupt SCOTUS that would fail to do their jobs.

 

[ElChupacabra]

I guess we know the game plan now for Democrats: find a populist who caters to the other half of the population and run the same game plan of emergency powers and purging all the government of all the MAGAverse types. Oh, and deport the Afrikaners to Cambodia after revoking their immigration status.

 

[CaughtInThe]

It's just fascism.

That's it. That's the entire thing.

 

[Integrityrespec]

How Trump Used 10 Emergency Declarations to Justify Hundreds of Actions

The president has declared 10 emergencies since returning to office, far outpacing what is typical. He has used them to justify hundreds of actions.

www.nytimes.com

In his seven months back in office, President Trump has declared nine national emergencies, plus a “crime emergency” in Washington. Those emergency declarations have been used to justify hundreds of actions — including immigration measures, sweeping tariffs and energy deregulation — that would typically require congressional approval or lengthy regulatory review, according to a New York Times analysis of presidential documents....

All presidents have the authority under the National Emergencies Act, a post-Watergate law, to declare a national emergency to enable the federal government to respond quickly to a crisis. But Mr. Trump has already invoked this power much more frequently than his predecessors and, experts say, for situations that do not qualify as true emergencies....

Mr. Trump’s use of emergency powers in this term has far outpaced what is typical. On average — between Ronald Reagan’s inauguration in January 1981 and the start of Mr. Trump’s second term this year — presidents declared about seven national emergencies per four-year term, according to a Times analysis of data from the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan think tank focused on democracy. Mr. Trump declared that many in his first month back in office....

So? You don't think crime in some Americans cities is at a emergency rate? Lots will disagree if you don't.

 

[Loulit01]

So? You don't think crime in some Americans cities is at a emergency rate? Lots will disagree if you don't.

You can find lots of people who don't agree the world is round. What's that prove?

Lot's will disagree...

Christ.

 

[Michael Cole]

So? You don't think crime in some Americans cities is at a emergency rate? Lots will disagree if you don't.

It doesn't matter what you think about my city's crime rate. Clean up your own back yard.

 

[bongsaway]

So? You don't think crime in some Americans cities is at a emergency rate? Lots will disagree if you don't.

How about the gop worries about the crime rates in the cities they control instead of worrying about crime rates in cities they don't control. Maybe California should send their national guard to Memphis?

 

[SkyChief]

...Immigration Emergencies

On the first day of his second term, Mr. Trump declared two national emergencies related to immigration. . .

Americans elected Trump because they wanted someone who would take action to solve the Border Crisis. Trump did what the voters demanded he do - took action. Declaring emergency on the Border empowered the president to take action.

If American voters had wanted some incompetent person to be president, someone who would ignore the Border Crisis, then they would have voted for the person notorious for her blatant nonchalance with regards to the border (Harris).

 

[Pyrite]

How Trump Used 10 Emergency Declarations to Justify Hundreds of Actions

The president has declared 10 emergencies since returning to office, far outpacing what is typical. He has used them to justify hundreds of actions.

www.nytimes.com

In his seven months back in office, President Trump has declared nine national emergencies, plus a “crime emergency” in Washington. Those emergency declarations have been used to justify hundreds of actions — including immigration measures, sweeping tariffs and energy deregulation — that would typically require congressional approval or lengthy regulatory review, according to a New York Times analysis of presidential documents....

All presidents have the authority under the National Emergencies Act, a post-Watergate law, to declare a national emergency to enable the federal government to respond quickly to a crisis. But Mr. Trump has already invoked this power much more frequently than his predecessors and, experts say, for situations that do not qualify as true emergencies....

Mr. Trump’s use of emergency powers in this term has far outpaced what is typical. On average — between Ronald Reagan’s inauguration in January 1981 and the start of Mr. Trump’s second term this year — presidents declared about seven national emergencies per four-year term, according to a Times analysis of data from the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan think tank focused on democracy. Mr. Trump declared that many in his first month back in office....

...Trade and drug emergencies to justify tariffs

The president has used two major categories of emergency, encompassing four separate declarations, to justify the sweeping tariffs he has imposed on most of the United States’s trading partners.

The most recent category is a trade imbalance. In an April executive order declaring a national emergency, Mr. Trump cast “large and persistent annual U.S. goods trade deficits” as a national security and economic threat. That emergency declaration has been cited to justify at least nine actions since then, some of them encompassing changes to tariff rates for many trading partners at once.

Most economists see trade deficits as a long-running feature of the U.S. economy, and many economists and legal experts questioned the declaration of an emergency at a time when the economy was strong.

The second category is a drug crisis. Back in February, the president issued three separate declarations targeting Canada, China and Mexico for what he argued were their roles in the national public health crisis caused by opioid use and addiction. (In each of those three declarations, Mr. Trump also mentioned the border and cartel emergencies discussed in the above section in conjunction with the drug crisis.) Each of those declarations has given rise to multiple tariff actions relating to those countries. According to provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, fentanyl deaths in the United States have been falling since January of last year.

Tracking the use of these emergency orders to justify tariff actions is extraordinarily complicated: Mr. Trump has changed rates; extended and further extended deadlines; and made specific adjustments to minimize disruption to particular American industries, among other actions. But the result, at least so far, has been a landscape of punishing rates — starting at 10 percent and going as high as 50 percent — that have taken effect for more than 90 trading partners.

Attempts in Congress to block or forestall the tariffs have not been successful, but court challenges remain underway.

Separately, Mr. Trump also declared a specific national emergency with respect to the government of Brazil, which he has argued is politically persecuting its ex-president, Jair Bolsonaro. Mr. Bolsonaro, an ally of Mr. Trump, is accused of orchestrating an attempted coup after losing the 2022 election. In the same document, Mr. Trump imposed duties on Brazil that brought the country’s tariff rate up to 50 percent....

 

[mike2810]

So? You don't think crime in some Americans cities is at a emergency rate? Lots will disagree if you don't.

Of course it could be considered an "emergency".

Then why did the Trump administration cut federal funding for local and State law enforcement? Would it not be better to hire more law enforcement that use the National Guard?
You do realize members of the NG have other jobs. How does removing those people from their job help the economy grow?