nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20190324-211543-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 190215s2019||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20190324-211543-0 doi eng 342 23 Mathews, Jud Author aut A National Emergency on the Border? Mathews, Jud Verfassungsblog 2019-02-15 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Declarations of emergency are in bad odor in modern constitutional democracies. the U.S. Constitution makes no provision for emergency declarations. And while the Constitution’s guidance is cryptic at best on many separation-of-powers issues, it couldn’t be clearer that Congress—not the President—has the power to appropriate funds. So: can he really do that? The better argument is that he cannot, but it’s not so open-and-shut a matter as you might suppose. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Border Protection Donald Trump State of Emergency Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/a-national-emergency-on-the-border/ raw object