GOP looking to curtail Trump's emergency powers

Senate Republicans said Tuesday they are looking to "revisit" a law that allows presidents to use the National Emergencies Act to redirect federal funding, as President Trump is proposing to do to build a southern border wall.

The GOP hopes a promise to take up legislation reining in the president will keep fewer Republicans from voting with Democrats this week on a resolution to revoke Trump’s border emergency.

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said GOP lawmakers are in discussions to narrow the law after Trump used it to redirect $3.6 billion that Congress had dedicated to military construction funding. Trump plans to use the money instead to construct physical barriers along the southern border.