Rep. Abby Finkenauer (D-IA) told Iowa’s Times-Republican on Saturday that she wants to have secure borders; however, she voted twice to defund President Donald Trump’s construction of the United States’ southern border wall.
The White House warned Democrats not to include provisions in a stop-gap government funding measure that would restrict the Trump administration’s ability to build a wall on the southern border.
Fifteen Republican and Democrat senators sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), urging them to take up legislation that would grant Congress more oversight over President Donald Trump’s national emergency authority.
The House passed Friday legislation to end President Donald Trump’s national emergency to build a wall along the southern border.
Eleven Republicans voted with Senate Democrats Wednesday to nullify a resolution that would terminate President Donald Trump’s national emergency, which would eliminate Trump’s ability to fund the construction of a southern border wall.
Senate Democrats passed Wednesday a motion to end President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration to build a wall along the southern border.
The Senate will vote Wednesday on whether to end to President Donald Trump’s national emergency diversion of military funding to build a wall along the southern border.
“The people of San Francisco are fed up, and the people of Los Angeles are fed up,” Trump said.
President Donald Trump appears to be making good on threats to use federal authority to intervene in California’s homelessness crisis, which has made large portions of San Francisco and Los Angeles unhealthy and unsafe.
Twelve Senate Republicans voted in favor of ending President Donald Trump’s national emergency on Thursday.
The Senate passed a resolution on Thursday that would end President Donald Trump’s national emergency on the border with less than a veto-proof majority; however, the president has already threatened to veto the legislation.
Sen. Mitt Romney announced Thursday that he will join more Republican senators against the national emergency, contending that the vote against his national emergency does not amount to a vote “against border security.”
Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ) announced on Wednesday that she will back President Donald Trump’s national emergency to build a wall along the southern border.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) announced Wednesday he will become the fifth Republican senator to back a resolution to nullify President Donald Trump’s national emergency.
Nearly three-quarters of Republican voters will more likely vote for a candidate if they back President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration, according to a poll released on Wednesday.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s misleading tweet on the subject had earned a combined total of likes and retweets in excess of 50,000.
Thirteen House Republicans joined Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Democrats to pass a resolution that would terminate President Donald J. Trump’s national emergency to build a wall along the southern border.
The House passed a resolution Tuesday that would nullify President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration that would allow him to build a wall along America’s southern border.
House Democrats introduced a resolution Friday to nullify President Donald Trump’s national emergency order to build the wall, but they face steep hurdles in Congress.
Congress passed a spending bill on Thursday with a veto-proof majority, sending the bill the president’s desk. Trump signaled he will declare a national emergency to build the wall.
House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-NC) released a statement on Thursday, saying he “fully” supports President Donald J. Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to build the wall, citing Congress’s inability to protect Americans and secure the border.
House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-NC) said in a statement on Friday that if Congress fails to find a solution to America’s border security problem, “executive action” is still “very much under consideration.”
