Posted on 03/12/2019 5:59:12 PM PDT by be-baw
WASHINGTON – The White House and Republican senators sought compromise Tuesday on limiting future presidents' powers to unilaterally declare national emergencies, as chances improved that President Donald Trump might avoid a long-expected rejection by Congress of his effort to divert billions more for building barriers along the Mexican border.
As a Thursday showdown vote in the Senate neared, GOP Sens. Mike Lee of Utah, Thom Tillis of North Carolina and others were talking with the White House about related legislation that would curb the ability of future presidents to declare national emergencies. If Trump would commit to signing a bill handcuffing future emergency declarations, more GOP senators might support his border emergency declaration in Thursday's vote.
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I love it when abplan comes together
Nope, not gonna do it.
Art of the Deal
+1
It’s all show... about figuring out what looks good. Very incremental stuff. Trump (I hope) has a long range plan. The Democrats clearly have a long term plan—total takeover of the country. Many in the GOP are selfish, focused on themselves, the next election, and their lobbyists.
What I love about Trump is the creamy irony he serves with the schadenfreude coffee.
This is just so perfect.
No doubt, legislation that will be repealed by a future democratic congress and signed by a future democratic president.
Dumb!
Just let congress go thru with blocking Trump’s national emergency declaration. He still has the ultimate power to veto whatever they pass.
Any politician against the wall is anti USA!
Very true.
This is brilliant. Congress gave this unfettered power to the President and it was used 31 times. Congress can take it away ,presumably. Of course President Trump has already acted under the existing law and they cant erase what he has done. But they can do it for the future to stop an irresponsible act by a communist Democrat president. Republican are flocking to support this in exchange for their vote not to oppose the present, much needed present emergency declaration. Absolutely brilliant. Mike Lee is a genius.
Let them vote against Trump’s National Border Emergency
and reap the whirlwind that follows.
And there will be a whirlwind.
DONT DO IT MR PRESIDENT..they say “Oh we will support you if you sign this” then they NEVER go ahead with it..wait for them to vote FIRST
The borders are totally out of control since the Hawaiian Feral “judges” put the foreign national invaders in charge of controlling them. If that isn’t an emergency, I don’t know what is.
You get it.
Exactly.
It is a national security issue, plain and simple. We can only hope Trump got something valuable from the R's who are confused about their political party membership. (He doesn't need an ED so perhaps he is way ahead in a larger sense.)
Actually this is a huge win. It gets its back to the constitution and the wall.
Schumer just sends over Chris Coons to sweet talk the Spineless Republicans, then Chuckie leaves the cake out in the rain. Lemme see; didn’t Karl Rove start tbe witch crap that got the democrap Coons elected?
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