just signed the veto! Let the howls begin!
Trump wields first presidential veto to nix border emergency rebuff
Trump’s veto came a day after 12 Senate Republicans joined Democrats in voting for the resolution, despite last-minute efforts between the White House and GOP lawmakers to keep the Republican Party united. The measure ultimately passed 59-41, and Trump immediately vowed to veto.
While the original passage marked a stinging rebuke from members of Trump's own party, his veto is likely the last word as lawmakers are unlikely to muster the two-thirds majority required to override.
Trump originally declared a national emergency on the border last month after Congress granted only a fraction of the $5.7 billion he requested for a wall on the border. Declaring a national emergency allows Trump to steer an extra $3.6 billion to the wall.
This has nothing to do with the authority of the President to declare a national emergency. That is beyond question. So, Trump and his supporters, like you, try to make that the issue. Why? Because only Trump's gullible base, of which you are a member, would believe that nonsense.
Also, this has nothing to do with border security. Time and time again, the Democrats and Republicans have voted funding for border security. The entire issue is about a border wall, not border security.
Twice, Congress has denied funds for a border wall, once in December causing Trump to "proudly" shut the government down. And again in February. Trump okayed the bill to prevent a second government shutdown and immediately declared a national emergency
to obtain funding for a border wall.
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump on Friday declared a national emergency to unlock billions of dollars in federal funds to build a wall on the southern border, bypassing Congress after lawmakers refused to meet his multi-billion dollar request for border wall funds.
Live updates: Trump declares national emergency to fund the wall - CNNPolitics
I provided to you the clauses of our Constitution that gives Congress the power of the purse. For the first time in our history Trump is using his power to declare a national emergency to obtain funding for a wall that has been expressly denied by Congress
... twice.
That is the issue.
So is this.
Trump has been called a Russian agent, willingly or unwillingly. He just vetoed a bill passed by Congress that restrained him from challenging Congressional powers as defined by our Constitution. So, Trump's latest tactic is a direct assault on our Constitution.
Putin has to be pleased with Trump's tactic.