Senate Democrats Will Soon Have Enough Votes To Pass Resolution Killing Trump’s Emergency

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Senate Democrats need just one more vote to pass and send to Trump’s desk a resolution that would kill his national emergency.

Senate Minority Leader, Sen. Chuck Schumer said on the Senate floor:


First, members of both parties know that there is no actual emergency at the border. Nearly 60 former national security advisors – Democrat and Republican, bipartisan, including former Secretaries of State and Defense, have written a statement saying there is “no factual evidence†of an emergency at the border. The president himself said, when announcing the state of emergency, that he “didn’t need to do this.†An emergency, by definition, is something you need to do. It’s an emergency. In the president’s own words, this is not a state of emergency. And if we let presidents – whomever they may be, Democrat or Republican – willy nilly because they want to get something done and just declare an emergency when it’s clear it’s been a long-term condition, a long-term issue – then this country is a different country.

And second – and it leads to my second point – members of both parties should be concerned about the president diverting money away from military construction projects in their districts. Again, President Trump doesn’t like you for some reason. He says there’s an emergency and takes money away from projects in your state that you have worked hard for. That’s no way to govern. But at the top of the list is this: it’s the Founding Fathers looking down upon this chamber and upon these United States of America set up an exquisite balance of power. They were worried about an overreaching executive. They knew what King George III was all about. And so they gave the Congress – they named the Congress, the House and Senate, Article I, not two, three or four – part of the government.

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Senate Democrats will soon have the votes that they need to kill Trump’s emergency

Sahil Kapur is doing the whip count and it doesn’t look good for Trump:

Senate Democrats need to pick up one more Republican vote to pass the resolution, but intrigue will be in how many more votes over 51 Senate Democrats will pick up. If they get near or above 60, we could see an honest to goodness veto override fight in the Senate.

Trump is going to veto the resolution, and then the real fight begins

After Trump vetoes the resolution, supporters will need 67 votes to override the presidential veto. The odds are long that so many Republicans will break with Trump, but this president is about to have a veto fight with a Senate that is controlled by his own party. Passage of the resolution is still vital because it will show the intent of the Senate to courts when Trump’s emergency is legally challenged.

Buckle up, because things are about to get very interesting.

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