Without looking, I'll ask: Did FDR consider WWII's four years and it's funding requirements an emergency, I wonder?

Back then, wars were funded on a "pay as you go" basis, hence all the war bond drives.

Without looking, I'll ask: Did FDR consider WWII's four years and it's funding requirements an emergency, I wonder?

Without looking, I'd think he didn't. The immediate response after Pearl Harbor might have been. I would hope he wasn't requesting "emergency funds" for recurring costs of the war effort throughout it's duration.

Um, no, because like Dantheman said, it is not longer emergent in the fifth year. In fact, it's pretty well predictable that, by the fifth year, there is going to be a minimal cost.

Without looking, I'll ask: Did FDR consider WWII's four years and it's funding requirements an emergency, I wonder?

Technically, it was "scheduled" on October 15, 1933, pursuant to Sec. 5 of the just-ratified Twentieth Amendment. Nevertheless, very droll.

Thanks. And, yes, the technicality had occurred to me as well but I thought it funnier the other way.

But, um, they originally expected upwards of 4 million people, according to a front page story in the Washington Post two months ago.

But presumably the city's planning started nearly a year ago, and was already being implemented two months ago. How many did they expect when they put together the plan? The implication of this action is that it was significantly less than 1.5 million.

I'm guessing that there isn't currently any better mechanism for the city to get this kind of help on such short notice, but wonder why it wasn't asked for two months ago when it could have been appropriated by the Congress.

IN fairness, at least it can be argued that a war is by definition an emergency action.

Um, no, because like Dantheman said, it is not longer emergent in the fifth year. In fact, it's pretty well predictable that, by the fifth year, there is going to be a minimal cost.

I don't think James would complain if they used emergency funding requests to fund unforeseen needs, but they have been using them to fund things they knew when the budget was created that they were going to need money for.

Next Tuesday’s inauguration, scheduled in 1789, has been declared a federal emergency.

Technically, it was "scheduled" on October 15, 1933, pursuant to Sec. 5 of the just-ratified Twentieth Amendment. Nevertheless, very droll..

Of course, this is the same administration who has, for seven years running, failed to foresee that two ongoing wars would cause an additional strain on the budget and therefore had to rely on emergency appropriations to fund them.

They also failed to protect the US from multiple terrorist attacks.

In fairness, that applies to the first year of a war, not the fifth.

Of course, this is the same administration who has, for seven years running, failed to foresee that two ongoing wars would cause an additional strain on the budget and therefore had to rely on emergency appropriations to fund them.

IN fairness, at least it can be argued that a war is by definition an emergency action.