Posted on 02/04/2019 6:46:50 AM PST by cowpoke
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has privately cautioned President Donald Trump not to declare a national emergency to build his southern border wall, The Washington Post reported Friday. He warned Trump that such a declaration might split the GOP and that Congress could pass a resolution opposing it, two Republican sources familiar with the conversation told the newspaper. In such a situation Trump might be forced into the first veto of his presidency — against his own party, McConnell pointed out, according to the sources...Some GOP legislators have already spoken out against an emergency declaration — and against another government shutdown. GOP Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said that an emergency declaration was a “terrible idea” and that he would oppose it. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) said last month that to “give the president authority basically to do that all by himself would, I think, stretch constitutional boundaries.”
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Succinctly put.
Phat fingers...
What an "A-HOLE"... DITCH MITCH!
The GOPe is as big a problem as the rats.
fake. news.
I’ve said before it might be good if McConnell’s defeated when he runs again, which is 2020 I believe. It’s not just that he’s the leader of Senate Republicans, which is bad enough. He also controls a PAC which has undermined conservative Republicans around the country.
Fake news?
So you believe that the GOP Senate caucus will support building a wall?
You must be having a hard time understanding current events.
Uh, that's the plan.
Split the GOP? Away from what, the democrats?
Day after day we watch Schumer, Pelosi and others wage dirty war against God-fearing Americans.
Day after day we watch dem-fearing Republicans run for cover and disgrace.
“udder destruction”
Could be painful.
Why does the press continue to refer to it as HIS SOUTHERN BORDER WALL?
It’s a wall to protect America from a number of things. It’s not HIS wall.
Utterly so.
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