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riversedge

(69,709 posts)
Thu Mar 14, 2019, 11:41 AM Mar 2019

Trump makes last-ditch effort to stop Senate rebuke of emergency declaration

Source: The Hill




By Jordan Fabian - 03/14/19 10:28 AM EDT



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“A vote for today’s resolution by Republican Senators is a vote for Nancy Pelosi, Crime, and the Open Border Democrats!” Trump tweeted.






The repeated warnings, however, appeared to do little to stem the tide of GOP defections. Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Mitt Romney (R-Utah) both announced Thursday morning they would vote for the resolution, joining five other Republican senators who say they will as well.

If the Senate passes the resolution with strong Republican support, it would worsen the sting for Trump, who has made the border wall his signature issue and harangued members of his own party to support his effort to build it. The Democrat-controlled House has already approved the resolution, meaning Trump will be forced to use his veto powers for the first time.

Lawmakers in both parties believe Trump exceeded his authority when he invoked his emergency powers to obtain money for the wall after Congress refused to grant his request for billions of dollars in funding, which had triggered a 35-day government shutdown that dealt a political blow to the GOP.....................................................

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/434024-trump-defends-legality-of-emergency-declaration-ahead-of-expected



Trump is begging via tweets. te he.








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Trump makes last-ditch effort to stop Senate rebuke of emergency declaration (Original Post) riversedge Mar 2019 OP
Have we ever had a pResident so devisive to pit the parties against each other daily? PeeJ52 Mar 2019 #1
LOL love the pic! Sends the message perfectly :) onetexan Mar 2019 #2
rump is an idiot and exceeded authority granted to the executive branch...Congress is reaffirming... SWBTATTReg Mar 2019 #3
I'm shocked he even cares. Steamroll is all he knows how to do. EveHammond13 Mar 2019 #4
Hmmmm moose65 Mar 2019 #5
Whoever wrote it needs to name these "scholars" 47of74 Mar 2019 #7
Rudy, Ivanka, and Dershbag. Harker Mar 2019 #8
Yeah 47of74 Mar 2019 #10
My version of Barry's tweet would have said... 47of74 Mar 2019 #6
Dishonorable Sen. Tom Cotton agrees. He sent me a letter saying Donnie sinkingfeeling Mar 2019 #9
 

PeeJ52

(1,588 posts)
1. Have we ever had a pResident so devisive to pit the parties against each other daily?
Thu Mar 14, 2019, 11:49 AM
Mar 2019

I didn't think it was possible, but tRump gives politics an even worse name.

SWBTATTReg

(21,856 posts)
3. rump is an idiot and exceeded authority granted to the executive branch...Congress is reaffirming...
Thu Mar 14, 2019, 11:52 AM
Mar 2019

its rightful place by voting this way.

moose65

(3,164 posts)
5. Hmmmm
Thu Mar 14, 2019, 12:14 PM
Mar 2019

"Prominent legal scholars agree that our actions to address the National Emergency at the Southern Border and to protect the American people are both CONSTITUTIONAL and EXPRESSLY authorized by Congress...."

That does NOT sound like something that Trump would write. Miller, maybe??

 

47of74

(18,470 posts)
6. My version of Barry's tweet would have said...
Thu Mar 14, 2019, 12:23 PM
Mar 2019

Sorry, America is experiencing a fuckhead orange shitgibbon masquerading as President.

Please stand by.

sinkingfeeling

(51,274 posts)
9. Dishonorable Sen. Tom Cotton agrees. He sent me a letter saying Donnie
Thu Mar 14, 2019, 01:57 PM
Mar 2019

has a great case for his action being constitutional.

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