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Senate Rebukes Trump, Trump's Response: 'VETO!'

Senate passes measure blocking Trump's border emergency

(Newser) - As expected , the Senate voted 59-41 Thursday to block President Trump's declaration of an emergency at the US-Mexico border. All the Democratic senators, plus 12 Republicans, voted in favor of the resolution rebuking Trump's move to get funding for his border wall, the Hill reports. The House...

Trump Finds a Fresh Avenue for Border Wall Money

Obviously, the House won't be jumping at it

(Newser) - President Donald Trump will seek $8.6 billion in his new budget to build the US-Mexico border wall, two administration officials said Sunday, setting up another showdown with Congress, which has resisted giving him more money for his signature campaign promise. The request would more than double the $8.1...

McConnell: Senate Will Likely Reject Trump's Emergency

But, he notes, presidential veto will likely not be overriden

(Newser) - The Senate will indeed pass a resolution blocking President Trump's border emergency declaration, Mitch McConnell said Monday, days after Rand Paul's support of the House-passed resolution pushed the chamber to the 51 votes it would need to also pass it. The Senate majority leader's acknowledgment "underscore[s]...

'National Emergency' Tide Turns in the Senate

Sen. Rand Paul says he can't back the White House

(Newser) - Opponents of President Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency at the US-Mexico border appear to have enough Senate votes to reject his move, now that Republican Rand Paul of Kentucky has said he can't go along with the White House, the AP reports. The House has voted...

House Passes Bill to Block Trump's Emergency Declaration

President has promised a veto if it passes Senate

(Newser) - Democrats ignored a veto threat and rammed legislation through the House Tuesday that would stymie President Trump's bid for billions of extra dollars for his border wall, escalating a clash over whether he was abusing his powers to advance his paramount campaign pledge. The House's 245-182 vote to...

Threats Are 'Very Real,' but Not From Mexico, General Says

Senators question diverting Pentagon money to build a wall

(Newser) - Under pointed questioning from senators, the top US general for homeland defense said Tuesday that he sees no military threat coming from the southern border with Mexico, but his focus is on "very real" threats from China and Russia in the north. Air Force Gen. Terrence O'Shaughnessy, commander,...

58 Ex-US Security Officials Weigh In on Trump's Emergency

They are releasing a formal letter opposing the emergency declaration Monday

(Newser) - A group of former US national security officials is set to release a statement arguing there is no justification for President Trump to use a national emergency declaration to fund a wall along the US-Mexico border, the AP reports. The statement, which was reviewed by the AP, has 58 signatures...

A Pause for Politics During the Show: Walls, Immigrants
The Political
Topic That
Made Its Way
Onstage
OSCARS 2019
Feb 24, 2019 9:35 PM CST

The Political Topic That Made Its Way Onstage

Maya Rudolph, Javier Bardem, chef Jose Andres mentioned walls, immigrants

(Newser) - Politics wasn't a high priority at the Oscars Sunday night, but one particular topic appeared to be broached more than once: the proposed border wall with Mexico. Comedian Maya Rudolph first touched on it in the opening monologue she did with Amy Poehler and Tina Fey, informing the audience,...

House Democrats Move to 'Terminate' National Emergency

Resolution to block Trump's declaration coming Friday: AP

(Newser) - House Democrats will file a resolution Friday aimed at blocking the national emergency declaration President Trump has issued to help finance his border wall, reports the AP . House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Joaquin Castro of Texas circulated separate letters Wednesday to lawmakers seeking co-sponsors to his one-sentence resolution saying...

Trump Steps Up Rail Feud With California

Newsom says it's 'political retribution'

(Newser) - In what California Gov. Gavin Newsom calls "clear political retribution," President Trump attacked the state's troubled high-speed rail project Tuesday, a day after California joined a lawsuit against his emergency declaration . The Transportation Department said Tuesday that it plans to cancel a $929 million federal grant to...

Trump's Declaration Just Got Its Biggest Legal Challenge

16 states sue to block border wall plans

(Newser) - "It’s kind of awkward to say that on Presidents' Day we're going to be suing the president of the United States, but sometimes that's what you have to do," California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said Monday, announcing a major legal challenge to President Trump's...

Trump May Issue His First Veto to the New Congress

Stephen Miller says Trump will stand by his national-emergency plan

(Newser) - President Donald Trump is prepared to issue the first veto of his term if Congress votes to disapprove his declaration of a national emergency along the US-Mexico border, a top White House adviser said on Sunday. White House senior adviser Stephen Miller told Fox News Sunday that "the president...

Coulter Leads the Zinger Parade: Trump Is 'an Idiot'

But others are critical on both sides of the aisle

(Newser) - Reactions are percolating around America to President Trump's declaration of a national emergency—not the least of which comes from his political frenemy Ann Coulter, per USA Today . "The only national emergency is that our president is an idiot," she said Friday on KABC Radio in Los...

Here Come the Lawsuits
It's Lawsuit Time
Feb 16, 2019 12:50 PM CST

It's Lawsuit Time

Public Citizen files the first federal suit over Trump's national emergency

(Newser) - In case you left Earth recently, President Trump has declared a national emergency to free up funds for his border wall. And now, as he predicted, lawsuits are on their way. The first one comes from the liberal non-profit Public Citizen, which says there's no actual emergency at the...

Trump Declares Emergency, Makes His Case

President will direct $8B to build or repair border barrier

(Newser) - No last-minute surprises: President Trump said in the Rose Garden on Friday that he was declaring a national emergency over the southern border. Trump is going around Congress to direct about $8 billion toward the building or repair of more than 230 miles of a barrier along the US-Mexico...

DOJ Warns White House About Emergency Declaration
DOJ Warns White House
About Emergency Declaration
THE RUNDOWN
Feb 15, 2019 6:09 AM CST

DOJ Warns White House About Emergency Declaration

Courts expected to block border wall move

(Newser) - President Trump says he will sign an emergency declaration to secure funding for a border wall—but he has been warned that the move is likely to encounter a wall of lawsuits from Democrats, immigration advocates, and environmentalists, among others. Sources tell ABC News that the Justice Department has told...

As Congress Passes Border Deal, Focus Turns to Trump

President has said he'll sign it, but declare emergency for border wall funds

(Newser) - Congress lopsidedly approved a border security compromise Thursday that would avert a second painful government shutdown, but a new confrontation was ignited—this time over President Trump's plan to bypass lawmakers and declare a national emergency to siphon billions from other federal coffers for his wall on the Mexican...

Trump Confirms He Will Sign Border Deal, Declare Emergency

White House issues official statement soon after McConnell confirmed Trump would sign

(Newser) - President Trump will sign Congress' border security compromise. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell confirmed that Thursday, followed quickly by confirmation from the White House. The announcements removed the last ounce of suspense over the fate of a bill that would provide just a sliver of the money Trump wants to...

Trump: Border Wall Will Be Tougher to Climb Than Everest

President says people will have to be 'in extremely good shape to get over this one'

(Newser) - President Trump says the wall he envisions in some places along the southern border would be harder to scale than Mount Everest, the AP reports. Even by Trump standards of exaggeration, that's a huge leap. The estimated height for some proposed barriers runs as high as 30 feet. Mount...

Trump Looking for 'Land Mines' in Border Deal

Most predict he will sign it

(Newser) - It's the billion-dollar-and-change question: Will President Trump sign a tentative bipartisan border deal that would allocate $1.38 billion for border fencing (he has maintained he needs $5.7 billion) and avoid a second government shutdown at midnight Friday? USA Today reports the House has scheduled a vote for...

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