Trump’s Emergency Is Part Of A Theatrical Tradition — And Congress Plays A Starring Role
In America, emergencies are normal. Whether they are real or not doesn’t seem to matter.
We in the United States are living under a state of emergency. But that’s nothing new. President Trump recently declared an emergency on the U.S./Mexico border, explaining that this was the quickest way to access funds for border wall construction that Congress had refused to appropriate. Some weeks later, Congress passed a ...
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