The Founders gave the President the ability to use the emergency powers for a reason, in over to over-ride Congress when they fail to act!
Trump is keeping his promise to Us and to Them!
The Founders didn't give the president the National Emergencies Act. It was passed in 1976:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Emergencies_Act
Oh there is no doubt this is setting bad precedent. Or more accurately piling on bad precedent on Obama's many bad precedents.
Can't say I am upset however. He is using the emergency powers to perform a function the Government is not doing and Constitutionally as an obligation to do. And America and her government died years ago. There is no reciprocal civility or willingness to follow the rules on the part of Democrats - so we either cheat like they do or loose to their dirty pool.
Contrast with Pelosi's threat to use emergency action to implement gun control in direct contradiction to the Constitutions explicit prohibition on such measures.
Oh, and that will also start a war...
Trump didn't start the precedent, he inherited it. This is the way the playing field is now.
As when Rome began to get overextended militarily and experienced strains on their economy that only new conquest and new tributes could hope to abate for a time...as they lost the morality of their (albeit pagan but still principled) founders...as the influx of foreign cultures began to overwhelm the existing order...they entered their whimsical Emperor phase...and now we are too. Where the leader is moral there is justice in their actions, where they are immoral their is injustice passed off as moral. Where was the morality in what Obama, Pelsoi, Reid and Roberts in the Obamacare dictate? Where was the morality in trading known hostile Islamic terrorists for a traitor? Where was the morality in giving (still to this day undocumented) taxpayer funds to the Iranians and letting them keep their nuclear weapons processing? Where is the morality in extorting taxpayer wealth to fund infanticide and failed institutions like NATA and the UN?
At least what Trump is doing is moral, saving lives and protecting our people. People from other lands don't like where they live? Tough, overthrow your corrupt socialist paradise or apply legally to enter through the front door like a person of character, otherwise you can STFD and STFU!
Eff Pelosi, eff cheap labor Pubbies and Hollywood idiots and crony-capitalists wanting maids and nannies!