In a rebuke of US president Donal Trump, the Senate voted 59-41 to pass legislation where twelve democrats joined the voting process ob Thursday afternoon rejecting President Trump’s national emergency declaration concerning the U.S.-Mexico border.
Twelve GOP senators, including the party’s 2012 presidential nominee, Mitt Romney of Utah, joined the dissent over the emergency declaration order that would enable the president to seize for the wall billions of dollars Congress intended elsewhere.
It was the latest sign that the cautious Republican majority in the Senate, spurred on by a far bolder Democrat-controlled House, was beginning to reassert its authority with a president who had gone virtually unchecked during his first two years in office.
After the voting, Trump tweeted simply: “VETO!” He later added praise for “all of the Strong Republicans who voted to support Border Security and our desperately needed WALL!”
The border wall was one of his top 2016 campaign promises, and the issue is sure to be prominent in his 2020 re-election campaign.
The official said plans are underway for Trump to publicly veto the resolution rejecting his national emergency declaration. According to the official, it would be surprising if Trump did not veto this measure at some kind of an event.
According to a source, the House will likely hold a vote to override President Trump’s upcoming veto on March 26 this year.
“Today’s votes cap a week of something the American people haven’t seen enough of in the last two years,” said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, “both parties in the United States Congress standing up to Donald Trump.”
> Shatabdi Sarker Poushi