Here’s How Democrats Plan to End Trump’s National Emergency Declaration
By The Blaze. Democrats reportedly plan to introduce a privileged resolution in Congress in to terminate the declaration of a national emergency at the border by President Donald Trump.
The plan was reported by NBC News Capitol Hill producer Alex Moe on Wednesday.
The resolution would end the declaration by Friday, if it is passed. Moe reported that the effort is led by Rep. Joaquin Castro (R-Texas) and has more than 90 co-sponsors. . .
House Democrats plan to introduce a privileged resolution terminating President Trump’s national emergency declaration at the border on Friday morning per to three dem sources. TX Dem Rep @JoaquinCastrotx is leading effort + already has more than 90 co-sponsors pic.twitter.com/Qvrv1CvE79
— Alex Moe (@AlexNBCNews) February 20, 2019
If the resolution passes the House of Representatives, it would need to be approved by the Republican-controlled Senate. The president has already indicated that he would veto any resolution that came to his desk. The Congress could then override his veto, but only with an unlikely two-thirds majority in both houses.
(Read more from “Here’s How Democrats Plan to End Trump’s National Emergency Declaration” HERE)
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Texas GOP Rep Opposes Trump’s Use of National Emergency to Get Border Wall
By The Hill. Republican Rep. Roger Williams (Texas) said this week that he opposes the national emergency declared by President Trump to build a border wall.
Williams, asked about Trump’s national emergency declaration by a constituent at a town hall event Tuesday, gave a clear “no” to supporting it, according to the Austin American-Statesman.
“The reason that I have not been supportive of the declaration is because Congress has done a really poor job, we … Congress, both sides of the aisle, put the president in this situation, OK, but I don’t support it from a selfish standpoint,” Williams said at the event, according to the Statesman.
He then reportedly went on to explain that the emergency declared by Trump could take border wall funding that currently goes towards military bases, specifically noting Fort Hood, and saying he’d “hate to see a lot of those dollars diverted from that.”
Williams’s district, which he is in his fourth term representing, includes a majority of Fort Hood and is not on or near the border. (Read more from “Texas GOP Rep Opposes Trump’s Use of National Emergency to Get Border Wall” HERE)
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