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Judge stymies Trump's border wall by invoking GOP law targeting Obama
What goes around, Republicans are learning, comes around.
President Donald Trump’s border wall is facing a surprising new legal hurdle down in Texas: an obscure legislative provision crafted by House Republicans in 2014 when the GOP was targeting then-President Barack Obama’s budget powers.
The amendment, carried forward into current law, has resurfaced with a vengeance in El Paso, Texas. U.S District Court Judge David Briones has been quoting back its words in a series of rulings against Trump’s decision to take $3.6 billion from military construction projects to expedite his wall.
As first adopted, the Republican language specifically prohibited Obama from taking any step to “eliminate or reduce funding for any program, project, or activity as proposed in the President’s budget request” until it's cleared with Congress.
The triggering event was a relatively narrow dispute in 2013 over funding for space exploration. But when they were enacted in Jan. 2014, the restrictions applied government-wide. And a year later, under full Republican control, Congress added the word “increase” alongside “eliminate or reduce” funding.
What goes around, in other words, comes around.
Minnesota Dem Congressman Says He Will Vote Against Impeachment
Minnesota Democrat Collin Petersen says he will vote against impeachment, sayin “The process was done completely backwards and wrong”.
I’m going to start a senate defectors pool! Obviously schumer and Piss-losi won’t be a hit in the pool, but I’d be interested to see who everyone thinks the next 5 - 10 defectors might be. 😎
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