House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave a stern warning to Republicans supporting President Trump’s move to declare a national emergency at the southern border.
Pelosi told reporters that a “Democratic president can declare emergencies, as well” and she added that “the precedent that the president is setting here is something that should be met with great unease and dismay by the Republicans.”
The House Speaker then pivoted the conversation to gun policy as she declared that the real national emergency in the United States is gun violence. Taking advantage of the one-year anniversary of the Parkland high school shooting, Pelosi added:
“Let’s talk about today: The one-year anniversary of another manifestation of the epidemic of gun violence in America,” Pelosi said. “That’s a national emergency. Why don’t you declare that emergency, Mr. President? I wish you would. ”
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