The reason being given is BS. The Congress passed a law giving Trump the authority to do what he is doing. People like Rand Paul don’t like the gov’t doing anything and he is using his vote to make his point. Obama on the other hand did not have laws or the Constitution to back up his EOs for the most part. This is just more weak kneed Republican’s trying to wrap up their patheticness in separation of powers and power of the purse arguments.
I think that’s probably true for all but Rand Paul.
Paul is a purist; the power of the purse is given to Congress, so this statute is on tenuous Constitutional footing (in thi s circumstance) is his purist argument. He would require something like a nuclear war, not something we’ve been living with since Ted Kennedy opened our borders wide.
Rand’s position is not irrational; I just disagree with the Rand on whether this is an emergency.
I, like you, think it is.