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BumRushDaShow

(127,254 posts)
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 02:41 PM Mar 2019

House fails to override Trump veto on southern border emergency

Source: Washington Post

President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border survived a critical vote in the House on Tuesday, as Democrats failed to muster the necessary two-thirds majority to override his veto.

The vote was 248-181, well short of the 288 that would have been required. The vote effectively ends — for now — legislative attempts to strike down Trump’s national emergency declaration. Now the fight over his attempt to circumvent Congress to get more money for his border wall will shift to the courts.

Congress sent Trump a bipartisan disapproval resolution earlier this month that sought to nullify the national emergency declaration. Lawmakers of both parties said the emergency declaration represented a dramatic intrusion into Congress’s authority over government spending.

In floor debate ahead of the vote Tuesday, Democrats insisted Trump was violating the Constitution’s separation of powers, while Republicans argued he was acting within his authority under the National Emergencies Act to address a genuine crisis at the southern border.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/house-fails-to-override-trump-veto-on-southern-border-emergency/2019/03/26/41e5bfee-4fdb-11e9-a3f7-78b7525a8d5f_story.html



This was pretty much expected.
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watoos

(7,142 posts)
3. You got it,
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 02:52 PM
Mar 2019

Global warming - national emergency
Gun deaths - national emergency
Unaffordable insurance, uninsured people - national health care emergency.
Air and water pollution - national emergency.
Foreign influence in our elections - national emergency
Voter suppression - national emergency
Elections where the votes can't be verified - national emergency.
Money in politics (looking at you justice Alito) - national emergency.

docgee

(870 posts)
5. Fuck it. Let him scrape a couple billion for the wall.
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 03:08 PM
Mar 2019

What you posted, that we now have precedence to do, is totally worth it.

BumRushDaShow

(127,254 posts)
4. And the Democrats are checking off the boxes
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 02:59 PM
Mar 2019

and will be utilizing the courts. PLUS you have this - https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211958610




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Tara Copp

@TaraCopp

BREAKING: .@RepAdamSmith @HASCDemocrats just denied DoD the ability to reprogram $1B in counterdrug $$$ for #BorderWall
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cstanleytech

(26,080 posts)
6. I am looking forward to the next Democrat in office declaring a National Health Care Emergency
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 03:25 PM
Mar 2019

and enacting medicare-for-all.

keithbvadu2

(36,360 posts)
7. Of course they failed. Repubs had the power to override or not the fake emergency.
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 03:49 PM
Mar 2019

Of course they failed. Repubs had the power to override or not the fake emergency.

Democrats could not do it alone.

Fake emergency according to Trump's own words.

yaesu

(8,020 posts)
8. well, keep at it, the 48th try may be the charm and its time to start shutting down funding
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 04:01 PM
Mar 2019

for departments that are helping the fascists be fascists.

marble falls

(56,353 posts)
10. And not too far from now. We need to get the few Senate seats the GOP have to defend in ...
Tue Mar 26, 2019, 07:06 PM
Mar 2019

2020. A handful more House seats more would be nice.

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