Sec. 4. Each day for the remainder of the first session of the 119th Congress shall not constitute a calendar day for purposes of section 202 of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622) with respect to a joint resolution terminating a national emergency declared by the President on February 1, 2025.
– H. Res. 211, 119th Congress, wherein those who vote ‘aye’ are violating common sense in their disgraceful rush to please the man-child President. The National Emergencies act gives the President the power to enact tariffs; this joke of a resolution protects the President from the disapproval of the House, or even filing such a resolution. The political point?
But this would force Republicans to go on record as either supporting or opposing the unpopular economic ideology Trump and Musk are imposing. So Republicans just passed a measure saying that for the rest of this congressional session, “each day…shall not constitute a calendar day” for the purposes of terminating Trump’s emergency declaration.
Thus the Republicans match or exceed the Democrats in their frantic twistings of reality.
