DNC Chair Perez: ‘Satisfying Rush Limbaugh and Making Sure You Have a Political Trophy Is Not a National Emergency’

Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez voiced his criticism Friday of President Donald Trump’s plan to declare a national emergency at the southern border to get his planned wall built.

Perez said on CNN’s “New Day” that Trump following conservative talker Rush Limbaugh’s calls to getting a political trophy over an “invented crisis” is not a reason for a national emergency declaration.

“[S]atisfying Rush Limbaugh and making sure you have a political trophy is not a national emergency,” Perez stated. “This is ridiculous. He will face problems in the Congress, and he will face problems in the court because the Congress, I’m confident, will take up a resolution of disapproval. Once the House does it, the Senate must do it. You heard so many Republicans in the run-up to this most recent invented crisis of the president say, ‘You should not to do this.’ Republicans have done this.”

He continued, “So, once you pass it, the resolution of disapproval in the House, it will go to the Senate. And those Republicans in the Senate who said he should not this, this will be a put up and shut up moment for them. And, again, I have no doubt that this will then go to the courts. And, again, justifying a national emergency because Rush Limbaugh is chattering in your ear, that’s just not the definition of a national emergency. This is ridiculous, but he’s got to satisfy his base and scratch that itch.”

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