This doesn't make much sense

Posted on: February 15, 2019 at 14:26:40 CT

"The purpose of the National Emergency Act was not to authorize presidential declarations of emergency; it was to limit them. The statute, passed in 1976, was specifically designed to curb what Congress saw as excessive and unjustifiable presidential usurpations of congressional powers. The very first sentence begins, “An Act to terminate certain authorities with respect to national emergencies still in effect …” [my emphasis]."

So to essentially curb executive power, they created a new way to use executive power?