Posted on 06/03/2019 10:37:58 PM PDT by Innovative
Congressional Republicans have begun discussing whether they may have to vote to block President Trumps planned new tariffs on Mexico, potentially igniting a second standoff this year over Trumps use of executive powers to circumvent Congress, people familiar with the talks said.
The vote, which would be the GOPs most dramatic act of defiance since Trump took office, could also have the effect of blocking billions of dollars in border wall funding that the president had announced in February when he declared a national emergency at the southern border, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the talks are private.
Trumps plans to impose tariffs on Mexico with which the United States has a free-trade agreement rely on the presidents declaration of a national emergency at the border. But the law gives Congress the right to override the national emergency determination by passing a resolution of disapproval.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Wa Po wont let me read article. Which Republicans?
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This article should let you in. But it only names John Thune.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/03/vote-tariff-1352662
There are very few true conservatives and loyal Americans anywhere near the District of Collusion. They sell their souls to get there and then obey their big donors once elected.
Dramatic act of defiance?
No. Weaselly act of kowtowing to the Globalist CoC .
FAKE NEWS
True suicide for them while the border is swamped. I guess we’re pathetic as a country if we can’t stand up to anyone.
Names...we just need names!!!!
It’s swamp rat hunting season...
We’ll starve the bastards of campaign cash!!!
Name names!!!
From a POLITICO article:
“Several Republican aides said that because the White House hasn’t sent official language to the Hill, they were unsure whether a congressional vote to block the tariff increase will be possible”
A glimmer of hope?
Trump does have the option of declaring a second National Emergency to apply the tarriffs.
All is not lost. (yet)
Trumps people should be keeping score on these willful acts of treason by these House Republicans. If it were up to me, their names would be read every night on Hannity. Hannity loves to repeat stuff ad nauseum, so this process would be perfect for his show.
Maybe on this trip someone in England can gift the President with a desk-top replica of a guillotine,
...one that he can point to when some of these back-stabbers come into the Oval Office for ‘consultations’.
It’s more BS from WAPO. Anytime you see 3 authors it’s pure bullshit.
Not sure this is real. Are there really enough Mitt Romney / John McCain RINOs to suicide the Republican party like this?
Maybe they aren’t reporting news, they’re making it.
Perhaps their “discussing” this matter is nothing more than answering the questions Politico asked them.
That’s Cornyn and he’s a longtime globalist puto and now Cruz has outed himself as one and the same.
The GOP has been working just as hard as the democrats to keep our borders open. These are some seriously evil F ers.
Mexico, China and others have bought our politicians. That should stop.
But this is a WaPo #FakeNews story meant to feed the socialist swine who are convinced that Trump is hated by everyone, including the GOP.
Ignore this drivel.
What ... no Mutt?
Plenary , executive powers .
Screw Congress , and screw elections .
Good to go with THIS MAN ,unimpeded, for 10-12 yrs or so .
Elections have become completely corrupted by the Democrats ,whom should be 100% outlawed and banned from American politics .
Isn’t Trump just using the tariff threat as a pressure point to force Mexico to get jumping on the border crisis (and it’s working, too!)?
And now the GOP wants to undermine that?
How do we make the GOP afraid of us? We the people have to do something. The only thing I can think of at the moment is to resign from the party. Perhaps if there was a mass exit from the party, every person who cares about this goes to the registrar and changes his/her party affiliation to another conservative party or to independent might send a strong signal. On the other hand, maybe that is not effective. I don’t know, but we need to get organized and do something or our country is lost.
Ya, Earnst and the others know whats going on and they like it its sick.
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