U.S. House to vote on overriding Trump veto of resolution ending border emergency

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Source: Reuters

Politics
March 26, 2019 / 6:08 AM / Updated 4 hours ago

Susan Cornwell

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A test of U.S. Republican lawmakers’ loyalty to President Donald Trump will come on Tuesday when the House of Representatives votes on a long-shot effort to override his veto of a resolution ending the emergency he declared at the U.S.-Mexico border.

The Democratic-led House had little expectation of gaining the Republican support needed to reach the roughly 290 votes, or two-thirds majority, required to override Trump’s veto. The 435-member House passed the resolution last month by 245-182, later joined by the Republican-led Senate.

Coming just days after Trump’s partial exoneration in a report from Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the House vote will hinge largely on perceptions in Congress that the emergency declared by Trump in order to build a border wall trampled on the congressional power to make government spending decisions.

But the Mueller report, which cleared Trump’s campaign team of colluding with Moscow in its meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, may make it more challenging for Republicans to defy the president on a range of issues, including his border emergency.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-congress-emergency/u-s-house-to-vote-on-overriding-trump-veto-of-resolution-ending-border-emergency-idUSKCN1R70ZN

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This vote will determine if the republicans will defend and protect the Constitution....................that's it, nothing else, or if they support a authoritarian rule...............

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1. They will support authoritarian rule so long as the ruler is a Republican.

Permanent single-party Republican rule has been a long-time Republican goal. They were close to achieving that goal but made a mistake with Trump, who is so awful that normal people cannot stomach even to see or hear the braying jackass.

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2. "may make it more challenging for Republicans to defy the president"

So they completely throw out Civics 101 and the idea of a tricameral government that the framers explicitly created because of the type of nonsense they are doing right now? I blame Gingrich and Hastert for this bullshit.