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Without enough votes from Republicans in the Congress, Democrats in the House are expected to fall short on Tuesday in their bid to override President Donald Trump's veto of a plan which would block his national emergency declaration from funneling billions of dollars from the Pentagon to construction of a wall along the southern border with Mexico. While both the House and Senate approved the plan to reverse the President's emergency declaration, neither chamber had enough votes for a veto override, which will allow Mr. Trump to move money around within military construction accounts in the Pentagon, shifting at least...

It is truly ironic right now that one of the things Republicans are trying to reclaim is fiscal responsibility, because most GOP lawmakers in the Congress never really embraced it. But there on the Senate floor Monday afternoon was one GOP member who has always been against earmarks, always taken on the establishment, always tweaked members of both parties about excess spending.