Senate Passes Resolution to End Biden’s COVID National State of Emergency: ‘American People Are Worn Out’
The U.S. Senate on Thursday narrowly passed a GOP-led resolution to end President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 National State of Emergency.

The U.S. Senate on Thursday narrowly passed a GOP-led resolution to end President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 National State of Emergency.
Majority rule means living in a world where there are five wolves, four sheep, and there’s a vote to decide what’s for supper.
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.
Fourteen Republicans voted with Democrats on Tuesday once more to end President Donald Trump’s national emergency on the border wall.
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.
Retiring Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) became on Thursday the seventh Senate Republican to oppose President Donald Trump’s national emergency.
The Senate will vote on a resolution that would end President Donald Trump’s national emergency to build a wall along the southern border.
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.
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.
Lawyer Jonathan Turley told NPR he believes Trump will prevail in the legal challenges for declaring a national emergency to build a wall.
The State of California and fifteen other states sued President Donald Trump on Monday over his declaration Friday of a national emergency and his plans to redirect federal funds to the construction of a wall on the southern border.
Eighty-five percent of Republicans approve of President Donald J. Trump’s use of national emergency powers to build the wall, according to a poll released on Tuesday.
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.
The White House should be extremely cautious in studying every single word in Congress’s spending bill, because even a single phrase could negate every authority President Donald Trump currently has under federal law to build and fund the border wall, even canceling his authority to declare a national border emergency.
Politico’s White House reporter, Nancy Cook, came out with a curious article on Thursday, laying out how, with Congress unlikely to approve any funding for President Donald Trump’s planned border wall, he should instead go the route of a national emergency declaration, and that it is Breitbart News that has been leading the way in framing the argument for such a declaration.
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) says President Trump has the legal authority to build significant portions of a border wall without additional congressional authorization or declaring a national emergency.
Federal law could not be more clear that President Donald Trump can declare a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexican border, and that such a declaration gives him access to all the funding he needs to build the wall.
If our present situation on the southern border isn’t a national emergency, nothing is. Here are some cold hard facts that demand the wall be built by any means necessary, and no, the President does not need Congressional approval to do so.
Ret. Gen. Michael McDaniel explained how the president can redirect funding appropriated for emergency executive operations.
There are currently 31 national emergencies recognized under federal law. If President Donald Trump declares a national emergency over the border crisis, it would increase that number to 32, putting in perspective how common it is for U.S. presidents to exercise that legal authority.