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That's equivalent to emergencies being permanent and not subject to oversight.

There is very little difference between the president saying "there's an emergency until I say there isn't", and repeating every year, "there's an emergency for the next year".

Though that Wikipedia article does say that Congress is supposed to review emergency orders, but in practice they just let the president do whatever.




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