Rosenworcel Remains Concerned on Scope of Communications Act War Powers Provision
FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel continues urging policymakers to “survey our laws & consider what happens” to communications networks under Communications Act Section 606 if the president declares the sort of national emergency that Donald Trump threatened to bypass Congress in…
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his bid to fund a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Section 606 lets the president “shut down or take over communications in war or emergency,” Rosenworcel tweeted Tuesday. Trump stopped short of declaring a national emergency during a Tuesday speech. He said Wednesday the option remains a possibility if negotiations with Capitol Hill over the partial government shutdown (see 1901080004), which centers on the wall funding dispute, don't yield results. “I have the absolute right” to declare a national emergency, with the threshold being “if I can’t make a deal with people that are unreasonable,” Trump told reporters.