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Statement

Moms Leader Commends House for Rejecting President Trump’s Bogus National Emergency, Urges Senate to Do the Same

February 26, 2019
Federal Budget, Immigration

Lisa Lederer, 202-371-1996

Statement of Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, Executive Director and CEO of MomsRising, an online and on-the-ground organization of more than one million mothers and their families, on today’s House of Representatives vote to terminate President Trump’s bogus declaration of a national emergency:

“The House of Representatives did what was right today by rejecting President Trump’s disgraceful, politically motivated, utterly bogus declaration of a national emergency. We strongly urge the U.S. Senate to do the same. Manufacturing a national emergency in order to build a wall the country neither wants, nor needs, is despicable – a gross violation of the President’s powers and a dangerous threat to the checks and balances our Constitution guarantees. 

“We thank the House leaders and every representative from either party who stood up for what is right. We demand that the full Congress reject President Trump’s reckless use of emergency powers. He must not be allowed to waste our tax dollars and undermine our democracy.

“The moms of America want Congress to stand up to this President, who is taking dangerous steps towards authoritarianism by undermining the power of Congress. The House of Representatives did that today and moms, dads, children, and country itself will be much better off if the Senate follows suit and Congress overrides any veto that may result.

“Congress simply must regain and retain its power to make funding decisions and reject Trump’s effort to waste more than $5 billion that is needed for disaster relief, health care, education, housing, and food on a harmful wall that will stand forever as a symbol of hate.”

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, decrease discrimination against women and moms, and to build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.