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Greg Stanton: “The president has declared a false emergency, a national…”

Featuring: Greg Stanton, Democratic | U.S. House, Arizona, District 4

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Rep. Greg Stanton on government shutdown, health care and airport delays

Published | Video Starts at 06:09

But the most important thing is they're totally illegal. Congress has the right to impose taxes. Tariffs are attacks. And The president has declared a false emergency, a national emergency. And he's using that national emergency as the basis to go against the Constitution and try to unilaterally put these tariffs and tax increases in place. It's bad public policy. (06:09–06:14)

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