Posted on 03/13/2019 2:46:14 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The House will not take up a Senate GOP bill that could give Republicans political cover as they vote on whether to block President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday.
By promising not to bring the legislation to the floor, Pelosi hopes to put pressure on Republican lawmakers who are trying to balance their desire to support Trump’s immigration policy and their professed concerns about presidential power. Later Wednesday, Trump himself dashed hopes for one alternative that would give lawmakers more power to check future emergency declarations — but not the current one.
During a Senate Republican lunch, the president called Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and said he would not back the senator’s legislation to give Congress more power over emergency declarations, a Lee spokesman said. Under Lee’s proposal unveiled Tuesday, national emergencies would end after 30 days if Congress does not vote to extend them. Politico first reported Trump’s call to Lee.
The president declared an emergency at the southern U.S. border to secure money for his proposed border wall last month after Congress allotted less money than he wanted for the project. The Democratic-held House already passed a resolution to block Trump’s declaration.
Trump has pledged to veto the House-passed bill if the Senate passes it. Neither the House nor Senate appear to have the two-thirds majority support needed to overcome his opposition.
The Senate will vote on the measure to block the emergency declaration Thursday. While five Republican senators — enough to pass the House bill in the Senate with a simple majority — have pledged to back it, some GOP lawmakers have looked for a way out of dealing an embarrassing blow to Trump.
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Trump is following the law. If they don’t like it change it
Remember these GOP one worlder, open borders betrayers of Americans.
Stupid republicans. If something is not done about this invasion and the removal of all these 3rd world illegals from our country, we will not have to worry about presidential power, our constitution will be irrelevant and our country ruled by a 3rd world dictator. Now is not the time to worry about presidential power, now is the time for the president to use the power a previous congress granted to stop this invasion and restore our republic. After this is done, if it is wise to repeal this legislation, then it should be done. But to stop the salvation of our country in the name of presidential overreach is beyond stupid, it is EVIL! These RINOs are EVIL EVIL EVIL!!!!!
The Corporate lobbyist party is all for wide open borders
Basically they are voting on whether they side with the citizen and the rule of law or on the side of fraudulently documented foreigners.
Watch carefully.
Let’s have the vote in the Senate.
And let those who vote against Trumps Border Emergency
reap the whirlwind that will blow upon them.
Over his veto.
Yep. Get these creeps on record. The DemoKKKrats too ;)
Wouldn’t passing a law to restrict a formerly legal Presidential action amount to an unconstitutional ex post facto measure?
Somebody is either giving Mike Lee a large sum of money, or has pictures, or has documents.
He got into trouble some time ago and has lost the teeth he use to bare.
Yes, watch carefully and you’ll see the cowards that make up the GOPee senate.
He’s been wearing Constitutional conservative camouflage, he’s just another Bush League Republican hell bent on turning the USA into North Mexico.
“to secure money for his proposed border wall”
First of all its not “his” border wall,
it’s ours. Secondly, he did not declare
a national emergency to get around
Congress. There is a national emergency
and Congress refuses to recognise it as
such. 800,000 asylum cases in backlog,
over crowded detention facilities, the
act of traveling thousands of miles
with children in tow, women being raped
as payment for passage, drugs, human
trafficking, and diseases being introduced
upon entry, all comprise the emergency.
Lee is just another Rubio - talked a good game for a while and basked in the admiration of ‘such a solid conservative” being laid on him...then trump came along and Lee’s mask slipped....bigly.
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