House votes to block Trump border emergency

The president has called the situation at the southern border a"crisis" and on 15 February, issued a declaration of emergency in order to bypass Congress and build a wall with military funding.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said on Monday:"This isn't about the border. This is about the constitution of the United States. This is not about politics. It's not about partisanship. It's about patriotism."What a difference a few years - and a new presidential administration - make. Now it is Republicans attempting to explain President Donald Trump's use of an emergency declaration to redirect funds toward his border wall, while Democrats issue dire warnings of White House overreach.The Democrats in control of the House of Representatives, joined by a handful of Republicans, have rebuked Mr Trump for this wall declaration.

They could hand their president an embarrassing setback, forcing him to use his first veto of his administration. Then - because a congressional veto override seems unlikely - the legal battle will shift to the courts.While many Republicans were critical of using an emergency declaration for a wall prior to Mr Trump's decree, some are now arguing the president is using the authority given to him by the constitution.

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The left everywhere just want billions of immigrants to flood countries, all because they think they will vote for them.

One tweet notes, that 2/3 of the vote is required, which they did not get. Not sure on how Congress works.

He'll come back and say My mate Kim, who is actually a dark haired bloke, has built a wall and no one complained. He is a great bloke and his government do what he says.....

Trumps the kinda to pursue a dictatorship

Well, he‘ll veto this and then on to the next round ...

To the paranoid it is an emergency. To the rest of us it isn't. Nice to see the Constitution still works. Another shutdown in the making?

Meaningless, won’t pass the Senate.

SpeakerPelosi good that the House voted it down. Now allow your fellow Dems the chance to vote on their principles rather than your party. Border security isn’t a political toy; stop making it one.

“I could do the wall over a longer period of time. I didn’t need to do this. But I’d rather do it much faster,” - Trump on National Emergency. Case closed.

What a joke these people are! There was no problem with the statement of having a wall when Obama was in office. But now they have a president that half the nation didn't vote for they want to block it. Absolute double standard idiots!

Wasn't Mexico supposed to pay for the wall?

Those crazy democrats 🤪🤪

Surprise surprise. Dems don’t care about America or Americans.

FAKE NEWS

Won't pass the Senate or have enough votes to override a veto. Who cares?

mattgaetz needs to be censured, kicked off committees for witness intimidation. SpeakerPelosi

Bummer!

He kinda shot himself in the foot when he immediately said it wasn’t an emergency, after declaring it a national emergency

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