White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders made a rare television appearance Wednesday morning to tell Americans that Donald Trump “has the absolute authority” to use a national emergency in order to secure funding for the border wall that Mexico was supposed to pay for, and for which Mexico is definitely not paying.

Sanders pushed Republicans to “do your job” ahead of a looming vote on a resolution that would terminate the president’s emergency and set Trump up to issue his first veto of his presidency and blamed lawmakers for failing to invest in border security.

“If you had done what you were elected to do on the front end then the president wouldn’t have to fix this problem on his own through a national emergency,” Sanders said on “Fox and Friends.”

“The president has the absolute authority, in fact he has a duty to call a national emergency to fix the crisis that we have going on at our border,” she added.

Actually, Sanders is only partially correct.

The National Emergencies Act of 1976 is extremely broad but explicitly gives Congress the authority to rescind presidential emergency declarations. So when Sanders tells members of Congress to “do your job,” rescinding emergency orders if they choose to is part of that job.

In addition to Congress, Trump’s authority to declare a national emergency under these circumstances is also subject to the courts.

Sanders portrayed the use of executive authority as a necessary move, citing new data that showed a spike in apprehensions and denials of people attempting to enter the United States in February.

“If that doesn’t define crisis I don’t know what does, and that’s something that we have to address,” she said.

“Congress should’ve fixed this problem. That president tried multiple times to get Congress to work with him to address the crisis. They failed to do so and now the president has to do what is absolutely necessary and what is right and that is to declare a national emergency and fix the crisis at the border.”

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