Dems change tune about executive powers when a Dem is in office

 Washington Examiner:

A sizable group of Democratic politicians have pressured President Joe Biden to declare national emergencies on the climate and abortion rights in recent weeks, but nearly 80 of those lawmakers attacked his predecessor's use of emergency powers.

Former President Donald Trump declared a national emergency at the southern border in February 2019 as a means of bypassing Congress and securing funding for the completion of his campaign-promised border wall. The move was heartily opposed by Democrats at the time as an abuse of executive power.

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"The President’s unlawful declaration over a crisis that does not exist does great violence to our Constitution and makes America less safe, stealing from urgently needed defense funds for the security of our military and our nation," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and then-Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said in a joint statement at the time. "This is plainly a power grab by a disappointed President, who has gone outside the bounds of the law to try to get what he failed to achieve in the constitutional legislative process."

Even Trump's final White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows , then a North Carolina Republican congressman and the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus , suggested Trump's border emergency was a "slippery slope" and predicted "the potential for national emergencies being used for every single thing that we face in the future where we can’t reach an agreement."

The House passed a bill in late February 2019 seeking to block Trump's declaration, as outlined in the National Emergencies Act of 1976, but the measure eventually died in the Senate. Biden ended the border emergency in February 2021, shortly after entering office. A year and a half later, he is facing pressure from Democrats to invoke similar emergency powers on abortion and climate.
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The difference is that the border emergency was real and Trump was dealing with Democrats who were facilitating illegal conduct for political reasons.  Climate change is a highly disputed concept that appears to be another means for Democrats to foolishly spend money that will have no reasonable chance of changing the climate but will harm the US economy. 

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