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Rand Paul: “We've declared emergencies with 130 countries.”

Featuring: Rand Paul, Republican | U.S. Senate from Kentucky

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Published | Video Starts at 12:06

Now we're declaring emergencies to prevent emergencies that would, that would lead to endless emergencies. And that's kind of where we are now, the tariff war. We've declared emergencies with 130 countries. Does anyone really believe that's a valid use of emergencies? So I've argued under both Democrat Republican presidents, we should get rid of, we should rein in and check and balance and constrain the emergency power. (12:06–12:09)

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