Sasse, Cruz, and Tillis: Trump's three amigos
US Senate,Donald Trump,Border Wall,Immigration,Politics
Conservatives are conservatives in part because they understand that the rule of law and adherence to principle matter more than political expediency.
On Thursday, we saw that the Republican majority in the U.S. Senate is less conservative than we had hoped.
Most Republican senators — including, most notably, Nebraska's Ben Sasse, Texas' Ted Cruz, and North Carolina's Thom Tillis — voted against a resolution to overturn Trump’s emergency declaration to fund his border wall with money Congress had appropriated for other purposes.
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