Posted on 02/22/2019 9:58:58 AM PST by jazusamo
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) predicted on Friday that a "handful" of Republicans will back a resolution to block President Trump's emergency declaration to construct the U.S.-Mexico border wall.
"A handful. …[But] there will be enough to sustain a veto," Graham told Fox News , asked how many Republicans would vote with Democrats in the Senate.
Graham didn't offer a specific number for how many of his Republican colleagues he thinks will back the resolution.
He said that he would "absolutely not" vote for the Democrat-led resolution, adding that he is "100 percent with the president."
Graham, who has emerged as a vocal ally for Trump in the Senate, also accused Democrats of "hypocrisy" on border security and argued they were opposing the president's plan because "they just hate Trump."
"I hope Republicans will not reward this quite frankly," Graham added on Friday.
Trump announced last week that he would declare a national emergency to construct the U.S.-Mexico border wall after Congress passed a bill that gave him $1.375 billion — well below the $5.7 billion that he requested.
The move sparked a political firestorm with lawmakers preparing to try to derail his emergency declaration.
The House is expected to vote on a resolution on Tuesday that would block the declaration.
Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) is the only Republican co-sponsor of the House resolution, so far, though Democrats are expected to try to pick up more bipartisan support.
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said in a Thursday statement that Senate Democrats would introduce a companion resolution "soon," and urged Republicans to support the measure.
If all 47 Democrats voted for the resolution to block the declaration, they would need to win over four Republicans to send the measure to Trump's desk, where White House officials expect he would use his first veto so far into his term.
Several Republican senators have raised concerns about, or voiced objections to, Trump's emergency declaration, raising the prospects that a resolution could pass the chamber initially.
But Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) is the only Republican senator who has said that she would vote for the resolution.
"I don't know what the vote situation will be in the Senate, nor do I know exactly what that resolution will say, but it is a privileged matter. That means that it will come before the Senate for a vote, and if it's a clean disapproval resolution, I will support it," she told reporters in Maine on Wednesday.
Don’t they need 60 votes in the senate for closure?
Murkowski, Collins, Rubio...
So they’ll all be on record being in opposition to the defense of the border of the United States?
Are they on the take from ElChapo too???
We’ll be taking names.
Well, there are always primaries.
Flimsey Grahamnesty is pretending to side with the citizens and the rule of law for re-election.
If he is re-elected, he will be right back to supporting amnesty.
Bush League Republicans MUST become extinct before the Republic does.
The usual Senate GOP suspects.
Let’s vote and confirm who they are.
I am sick of these losers who could care less about the citizens of this country. I think they border on traitorous conduct.
Not for a resolution but the Rats won’t get enough votes to override President Trump’s veto should the resolution pass in both Houses.
Next election cycle remember USA traitors, and closet communists!
“Enough to sustain a Veto”.
Does that mean that there won’t be enough GOP opposition to stop the president from declaring an Emergency?
I think I know what that means, but I’m not too proud to just ask you all here.
They are the El Chapo wing of the Republican Party. Who ever they we must never forget.
Let’s wrap this Freepathon up, Folks!
We're looking at a new world order movement.
Tillis
Why Linda?
What else do you expect from the backstabbing Judas’s that are Congressional Republicans
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