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3.3 Emergency Powers and The Wall

1. The gov will shut down or the wall will be built. 2. Trump can't just declare a national emergency to get his way. 3. After 9/11 and during the swine flu outbreak. 4. Trump can only use specific powers made by congress and has to declare what powers he is using. 5. The armed forces would have to choose between listening to their boss or not committing a federal crime. 6. Put military funding towards the wall. 7. Harry Truman's attempt to nationalize the steel mills during the war was unconstitutional. 8. Override him with 2/3 majority.

3.2 Presidential Action on Medicaid

1. Centers for medicaid and medicare services 2. "Under block grants, states would receive a set amount of federal funding, instead of the open-ended funding commitment they currently receive from the feds. " 3. Losing coverage 4. LBJ 5. 75 million 6. "Expansion of Medicaid and to fundamentally overhaul its financing with federal spending caps" 7. Children, elderly, disabled, pregnant 8. Children, elderly, disabled, pregnant 9. Disabled

3.4 Trump SOTU #3

1. "To rebuild and revitalize our nation’s infrastructure, to reduce the price of health care and prescription drugs, to create an immigration system that is safe, lawful, modern, and secure and to pursue a foreign policy that puts America’s interests first." 2. Buzz Aldrin 3. Creating new jobs 4. He cut a crap ton of regulations for businesses. 5. Pardoning and granting clemency 6. The border wall for safety and jobs for Americans. 7. Higher amount of women in congress than ever before 8. Imposed tariffs on China. 9. "We eliminated the very unpopular Obamacare individual mandate penalty — and to give critically ill patients access to life-saving cures, we passed, very importantly, “Right to Try.”" 10. He wants to revise NAFTA with U.S.M.C.A 11. Mexico 12. "Tonight we are also joined by Pittsburgh survivor Judah Samet. He arrived at the synagogue as the massacre began. But not only did Judah narrowly escape death last fall — more than 7 decades ago, ...

3.7 Election Do Over

1. The republican beat the democrat by less than 1,000 votes. 2. He directed a coordinated scheme to unlawfully collect, falsely witness, and otherwise tamper with absentee ballots. 3. 5th Amendment 4. The state can hold a new election because the original one was tampered with. 5. He filled out votes for the candidates and sought out people to sign them and falsely signed witness for absentee ballots. 6. The board is three democrats and three republicans so it is a bipartisan decision. 7. Took them and filled them out to vote for Harris. 8. Every witness is saying Harris didn't know about the plan.

3.6 National Emergency

1. Lets the president issue a national emergency within certain constraints. 2. He is trying to go around congress to fund his border wall. 3. Both houses of congress would have to approve the resolution with a simple majority. 4. He can just veto it. 5. Landowners can sue for the government taking their land even though eminent domain is a thing. 6. The lawsuits took forever and are still pending to this day. 7. Because they claim that it is an abuse of Constitutional power. 8. They could sue him.

3.5 2020 Election Already!

1.  They can raise money and they can start polling and hiring staff. 2.  They start raising money, polling and hiring staff. 3. File a statement of their candidacy to the Federal Election Commission and slap the word “exploratory” on the name of their campaign’s committee. 4. It is an important early state on the calendar. 5. Building the financial foundation of their campaign. 6. They have universal name recognition and an established political infrastructure.