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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOmar: Next president should declare national emergency on climate change 'on day 1'
BY TAL AXELROD - 02/15/19 02:26 PM EST
Our next President should declare a #NationalEmergency on day 1 to address the existential threat to all life on the planet posed by Climate Change, Omar, an outspoken critic of Trump, tweeted Friday.
The presidents declaration is likely to draw a court challenge, and Republicans on Capitol Hill had privately and publicly urged Trump to avoid such a move, fearing a future Democratic president could declare a national emergency on climate change, gun control or other liberal priorities.
Trump first said Thursday he would announce the national emergency to beef up funding for a barrier on the southern border, a move that swiftly drew the rebukes of Democrats who slammed the move as an unnecessary overstep.
An outrageous abuse of powernot to mention waste of taxpayer dollarsif he goes through with this ludicrous idea. Drop the absurd wall and do your job, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), one of several senators running for the Democratic Partys presidential nomination, tweeted prior to the official declaration.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/430252-omar-next-president-to-declare-national-emergency-on-climate-change-on-day-1
klook
(12,157 posts)That's the real national emergency. The real global emergency. It's World War III, actually, and the whole planet needs to fight that war together. Otherwise we're condemning our children and grandchildren to a hellish future.
ffr
(22,670 posts)Then we could set about the difficult job of being responsible for managing our home, which will need to include some form of population management, and soon.
c-rational
(2,594 posts)samnsara
(17,623 posts)..to all the world leaders and start setting up meetings on how to undo all the shit trump has done. Climate change may have to wait until the new leader averts WW3.
so.....the next Prez will have to have all these skills BEFORE he or she takes the oath. No beginners. We have NO time for any learning curve.
standingtall
(2,785 posts)declare a national emergency to usurp the supreme court.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)The next democratic president needs to get that back, and I do not give a DAMN how they do it!!!
Renew Deal
(81,866 posts)Really 4
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)And we keep letting the republicans get away with it!
Renew Deal
(81,866 posts)Stop the protests, and elemininate congress because why not. Go full dictator. Actually, make that king of the Andalls and the first men.
Brawndo
(535 posts)Couldn't resist.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,356 posts)I'm not sure how the declaration of a national emergency would help in dealing with the climate crisis, but it wouldn't be a fake emergency, at least.
dansolo
(5,376 posts)It is no better for our side to do it, because then we are legitimizing Trump's actions.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)But Democrats must remain pure of heart huh?
Republicans steal a SCOTUS seat but we must do nothing about it.
Republican President doesnt get what he wants from Congress so he goes around it and gets what he wants.
But democrats must never do the same.
Guess whos going to win in the end?
Its not hard to figure out.