GOP moves to rein in president's emergency powers

[Formerly Once-Ler]

The problem is that Congress passed the emergency declarations law and now that they don't like the President, they want to prevent him from using it.

The argument I would make is that if a National Emergency can be declared on a long festering issue debated in Congress and a budget bill that Congress designed to prohibit then the National Emergency law is being misapplied.  Clearly enough people in Congress didn't think so yet.  They can replay it in 6 months while the judges rule on it.

[Formerly Once-Ler]

Really? That's interesting considering that nobody knows or will say, how Obama/Jarrett magically came up with $150 billion dollars in cash on stacked on pallets to give to Iran. 150 Billion dollars for Iran is somehow OK. But 5 Billion for America is illegal and crazy talk? How any rational person can think that what Obama did was legal, I will never comprehend.

It's legal because it happened.  The Congress let it happen and the American People let it happen.  Nobody fights that battle anymore because Obama is not the President.

Why do you excuse Trump by pointing at something else you think is sketchy?

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/apr/27/donald-trump/donald-trump-iran-150-billion-and-18-billion-c/

The $150 billion

The 2015 agreement freed up Iranian assets that had been frozen under sanctions. Called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the deal included Iran and the United States, China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom and the European Union.

The agreement only affected sanctions imposed to punish Iran for its nuclear program. Iran has other assets that remain frozen.

Some conservatives have put the amount released after lifted sanctions as high as $150 billion, which is the highest of estimates we have seen. Another estimate from Iran’s Central Bank topped out at about $29 billion in readily available funds, with another $45 billion tied up in Chinese investment projects and the foreign assets of the Iran’s Oil Ministry.

After talking with officials at Iran’s Central Bank, Nader Habibi, professor of economics of the Middle East at Brandeis University, believes the actual total is between $25 billion and $50 billion.

In July 2015, U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew told lawmakers Iran would gain access to $56 billion.

It’s important to know that little of that money was under the control of the United States or any U.S. bank. Most of it, Habibi said, was in central and commercial banks overseas. Furthermore, it was Iran’s money to begin with, not a payment from any government to buy Iran’s cooperation.