Ex-RNC Chair Michael Steele Warns GOP On Trump's Emergency: You Will Rue This
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Ed Mazza, HuffPost 
Former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele is calling out his own party for enabling President Donald Trump ’s reported plan to declare a national emergency to get funding for his border wall.
“At the end of the day, this is something Republicans will rue,” Steele said on MSNBC’s “MTP Daily” on Thursday.
Steele warned that once Trump declares an emergency to get funding for his wall, a future Democratic president will be able to do the same for any number of other issues.
“If any aspect of this is allowed to stand, they have no credence, no authority to criticize any Democratic president who stands up and says, ‘There’s a national emergency on guns and I’m hereby limiting the sale of future arms in this country,’” he said.
Indeed, later in the day, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) hinted at exactly that.
“ You want to talk about a national emergency ?” she said. “Let’s talk about today, the one-year anniversary of another manifestation of the epidemic of gun violence in America. That’s a national emergency.”
NBC News political correspondent Heidi Przybyla also pointed out that Republicans frequently criticized former President Barack Obama for his use of executive orders.
“This is that on steroids,” she said. “This couldn’t even pass the Fox News test. You had commentators on Fox News warning the president against doing this.”
Steele also slammed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) for “taking his 30 pieces of silver” ― a reference to Judas’ betrayal of Jesus Christ ― in supporting Trump’s declaration.
The full discussion was posted online by Raw Story :
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Once again, the turd doesn't get his way, has a trumpertantrum.
authorities use the number of apprehensions to gauge changes in illegal immigration. Apprehensions on the Southwest border peaked in 2000 at 1.64 million and have generally declined since, totaling 396,579 in 2018 .
DHS estimated that the growth of the illegal immigrant population had slowed considerably, saying the population increased by 470,000 per year from 2000 to 2007, but only by 70,000 per year from 2010 to 2015.
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Crisis my ass, I said long ago, this man will say or do whatever he wants to get whatever he wants.
You seem to be suggesting he doesn't really believe there is a problem at the border. If it's just to "get whatever he wants," why is it that you think he wants it?
He wants it because his base wants it. He has no principles of his own, IMO; remember how he was a Democrat for all those years, until it became more convenient for him to be a Republican? He threw it out there on the campaign trail and it was a hit, so it stuck with him. And now he's afraid to let it go, because he knows he'd lose their support. This one issue gets him the most adulation at his rallies, and that's the one thing he lives for (well, besides money).
And now his base can convince themselves that he's done everything he could to get them their wall, when if it were a true emergency, he wouldn't have waited 2 years to do it, especially when the GOP had control of Congress during those years.
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