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.
Eleven GOP senators voted to cancel President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national border emergency and his subsequent transfer of agency funding to build the border wall.
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.
During a speech on the Senate floor on Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced that Democrats will force a vote to terminate President Trump’s national emergency declaration within the next month. Schumer said, “As stipulated by the National
President Trump must use his executive powers to take action on the soaring levels of illegal and unchecked immigration to the United States rather than delivering “empty threats,” columnist Michelle Malkin says.
It is convention during this period for Christians to commit to some deliberate act of denial in order to focus on their faith and bring them nearer their God.
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show,” Representative Joaquin Castro (D-TX) stated that he believes it will be “very significant” for the courts to see that both the House and the Senate voted against President Trump’s national emergency declaration.
President Donald Trump dismissed Senate Republicans on Thursday who vowed to block his decision to declare a State of Emergency on the border.
During a press conference on Thursday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) stated that Senate Democrats intend to bring the resolution against President Trump’s national emergency declaration up for further votes. Schumer said, “[T]he president will first veto it. It
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.
On Thursday’s “CNN Newsroom,” Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) stated that if there was a secret ballot, the majority of Republicans in the Senate would vote against the president’s national emergency declaration. Cardin said, “I think you’re going to find a
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.”
“The Democrats are ‘Border Deniers,'” Trump wrote on Twitter. “They refuse to see or acknowledge the Death, Crime, Drugs and Human Trafficking at our Southern Border!”
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Tuesday that Republicans’ constitutional concerns over President Trump’s national emergency declaration to secure the southern border is “pure, unadulterated B.S.”
The Senate will vote on Thursday on a resolution that would nullify President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration to build a wall along the southern border.
President Donald Trump on Saturday referred to prominent conservative author Ann Coulter as a “Wacky Nut Job” following months of criticism she has directed at him regarding the lack of progress building a U.S.-Mexico border wall.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said the United States being “flooded” with migrants coming across the U.S. southern border is indeed a “crisis.”
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) expressed support for President Trump’s national emergency declaration and stated that the precedent of the president using national emergency declarations has already been set, and “Anyone
Wednesday on CNN’s “New Day,” Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) argued in favor of President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration at the southern border. Kinzinger, who visited the border and saw the situation firsthand, said there is a “really bad situation” at the
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Senator Tom Udall (D-NM) backed Senator Rand Paul’s (R-KY) prediction that ten Republicans in the Senate will vote against President Trump’s national emergency declaration. Rand said, “I think there will be probably ten
New York Times best-selling author and populist conservative columnist Ann Coulter says Republican lawmakers opposing President Trump’s National Emergency declaration at the United States-Mexico border are not “principled at all.”
Mitch McConnell has broken a reported promise to President Trump, admitting that he failed to prevent Republican Senators from passing a resolution blocking a national emergency declaration on the U.S.-Mexico border.
While speaking to reporters on Monday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) stated that even if President Trump vetoes the Congressional resolution against his emergency declaration, “the point will be made.” She also expressed hope that the president will withdraw the
Sen. Rand Paul has joined the list of GOP Senators who are abandoning Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s pledge to support the border emergency declaration by President Donald Trump.
During Friday’s Democratic Weekly Address, Senator Tom Udall (D-NM) urged the Senate to pass the resolution against President Trump’s “land grab” emergency declaration. Udall said, “For border states like mine, this is a land grab, an attempt to seize away
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) stated that he thinks there will be enough votes in the Senate to block President Trump’s emergency declaration, but it will be difficult to get enough votes
During a discussion at CPAC on Saturday, radio host and author Mark Levin defended President Trump’s national emergency declaration and addressed arguments that the declaration creates a dangerous precedent that could be used by Democratic presidents by saying Democrats violate
Friday, Rep. Tom Reed (R-NY) defended the bipartisan effort he is a part of that would limit the president’s power in a national emergency declaration. Reed explained on CNN’s “New Day” that he agreed with President Donald Trump that there
