Emergency-Declaration Rebuke Splits Senate GOP
Posted on AllSides March 14th, 2019
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Twelve Republican senators joined Democrats Thursday to pass a resolution terminating the national emergency declared by President Trump last month.
On Thursday afternoon, twelve Republican senators — nearly a fifth of the GOP caucus — joined Senate Democrats to pass a resolution terminating the national emergency declared by President Trump last month in an effort to unilaterally appropriate funds for construction of his long-promised border wall. The 59–41 vote was a rare bipartisan rebuke of Trump, who will now issue the first veto of his presidency in order to preserve...
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