In an effort to avoid voting in favor of the House's resolution to terminate Trump’s #FakeEmergency, GOP senators are proposing legislation to allow Trump to violate the Constitution *just this once.*— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) March 13, 2019
The House will not take up this legislation to give President Trump a pass.
In the end, though, none of that mattered. Vice President Mike Pence’s assurances to Lee and his colleagues that Trump was open to the compromise went up in smoke when the president called in to a Senate lunch meeting Wednesday with a preemptive announcement: He planned to veto Lee’s bill.March 14:
Prominent legal scholars agree that our actions to address the National Emergency at the Southern Border and to protect the American people are both CONSTITUTIONAL and EXPRESSLY authorized by Congress....— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 14, 2019
On Thursday morning, Donald Trump sent out a pointed missive ahead of the Senate’s vote to block his emergency declaration: “A vote for today’s resolution by Republican Senators is a vote for Nancy Pelosi, Crime, and the Open Border Democrats!“
Soon after, White House aides began blasting the tweet to GOP senators by text message to remind them of how the president viewed the impending vote, according to senators and aides who received the messages.
59-41, Senate votes to block emergency declaration over border wall, setting up Trump’s first veto— Manu Raju (@mkraju) March 14, 2019
....If, at a later date, Congress wants to update the law, I will support those efforts, but today’s issue is BORDER SECURITY and Crime!!! Don’t vote with Pelosi!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 14, 2019
A vote for today’s resolution by Republican Senators is a vote for Nancy Pelosi, Crime, and the Open Border Democrats!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 14, 2019
VETO!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 14, 2019
I look forward to VETOING the just passed Democrat inspired Resolution which would OPEN BORDERS while increasing Crime, Drugs, and Trafficking in our Country. I thank all of the Strong Republicans who voted to support Border Security and our desperately needed WALL!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 14, 2019
Aides are hashing out plans for Trump to veto the resolution blocking his national emergency declaration in front of the cameras as soon as tomorrow, I'm told. Official said it would be unusual for Trump not to do so.— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) March 14, 2019
Trump was for the Lee legislation, and then he wasn't, and then he was; sort of. And he was too busy tweeting to actually, you know, call Senators and get them to vote his way. And yes, the vote by Congress plays into the hands of those bringing suits to stop this "emergency" (which Homeland Security has yet to take action on), because it gives the courts a reason to refuse this hot potato without refusing to rule on the issues raised by this declaration. And the lesson of all this?
You don't get enough votes in the Senate, either.
So much winning!
An important reminder for the Democratic Primary fights to come: You get zero delegates for winning Twitter— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) March 14, 2019
You don't get enough votes in the Senate, either.
So much winning!
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