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angrychair

(12,484 posts)

3. According to law

Reply to shanti (Reply #2)

Fri Feb 15, 2019, 02:43 PM

Feb 2019

It should be reviewed by congress after 6 months and can be canceled after 12 months or just renewed without action.
No one (meaning congress) has made the effort to review or cancel any emergency power declaration since the National Emergency Act was made law in 1976.

There are over 100 emergency declarations on the books right now.