Senate votes to reject Trump’s emergency declaration, setting up president’s first veto

By Erica Werner , Erica Werner Congressional reporter focusing on economic policy Email Bio Follow Seung Min Kim and Seung Min Kim White House reporter Email Bio Follow John Wagner John Wagner National reporter leading The Post's breaking political news team Email Bio Follow March 14 at 2:48 PM Breaking news: A group of Senate Republicans joined Democrats on Thursday to approve a disapproval resolution aimed at overturning President Trump’s declaration of an emergency on the U.S.

“I don’t know what the vote will be. It doesn’t matter. I’ll probably have to veto. It’s not going to be overturned,” Trump told reporters at an Oval Office meeting with the Irish prime minister. “With Trump everything is possible,” Graham said. “Rabbits being pulled out of a hat are just everyday business.”

Trump took to Twitter to goad his critics and insist that defectors would be siding with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi , whose chamber has already passed the resolution overturning Trump’s emergency declaration. Concern among GOP senators has focused on Trump’s use of the National Emergencies Act to grab $3.6 billion appropriated by Congress for military construction projects nationwide — and use it to build barriers along the border instead.

“I just said, ‘There’s some people who want to talk to you. You know I like them. They got real concerns. I don’t agree with them, but they’re good guys and gals.’”“Literally that way,” Graham said. “Hell, if it’d been me, I’d have told us to go to hell.” Shortly after that, Lee announced he would be voting for the disapproval resolution. In addition to Lee, Toomey, Romney, Alexander, Portman and Moran, the other GOP senators who have said they will vote for the disapproval resolution are Susan Collins , Lisa Murkowski , and Rand Paul .

davidspunt howcome u RT so many compost articles?😂

I bet he has the best vetoes.

Only seven more!

They will accept Trump's emergency declaration.

TermLimitsNow

The 41 GOP senators who voted against this resolution are enemies of We, The People. Resist VoteThemAll BlueWave2020 We made a deck of playing cards. KnowYourDeplorables

Trump the worlds biggest liar is rapidly losing the support of his own party

Now, if Senate Republicans really want to represent the American people that voted them in, they should gather the votes to override Trump's veto. It would show Trump that he can not usurp the power of Congress. Period.

Food fight in the GOP.

None of the 12 turncoat senators are from a border state. Big surprise. They just exposed their reelection backsides. I HOPE THEY'RE READY FOR THE VETO!!!! Bunch of boneheads....

'upposed' ... paragraph 13.

Congress continues to act irresponsibly in defending the borders.

Another proof that the USA has been betrayed for decades by both the GOP & TheDemocrats . UniParty refusal to defend the US border is designed to degrade the USA, destroy her as a superpower to establish a One World Govt run by the corrupt United Nations. WakeUpAmerica

Chuckle .The cost is much,the house tried to reduce the cost yet Trump doesn't want to take a bow.Cost should be considered

First test vote on impeachment

Republican Senators looks much better than Democratic Senators, less partisan.

How about we tackle the crisis that is student loans or the water crisis we have in many of our cities? Or how about the opioids crisis? How about PUERTO RICO?

It is not just Democrats who refuse to support the wall, but a number of Republican senators who also voted against it today. The democrats know how 2 keep ranks. Unfortunately there are those continuous Republican spoilers who will not support their president. An embarrassment!

We gonna be calling this one the cheetoveto

Fahrenthold Would hate to get TrumpFail realDonaldTrump trending... RT Retweet

Fahrenthold theater

Fahrenthold So is there a facial recognition database of everybody's grimaces, scowls and frowns to use for every occasion?

Maybe the party can now see that they don’t have to bow down to this megalomaniac 👏 There is a Republican Party without Trump!

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Yet Trump and his Cult will continue the “Dems are to blame” chant. Even the GOP knows Trump isn’t going to get his darn wall.

If democrats want to win in 2020, they need to talk about the election of donald trump as a symptom of the sickness born out of the 2008 financial crisis. if we understand the symptoms and illness we can then work on the cures. SenGillibrand

Would that they join to reject completely

Fahrenthold Great news, but it's inexcusable that only 11 of the GOP have spines.

Any questions

... 'became the latest GOP senators to declare their opposition to the president, arguing that he was threatening the Constitution’s separation of powers by declaring a national emergency to get money denied by Congress for his wall.' THANK YOU GOP

Meanwhile, all three voted against the measure. Hypocrites!

Sanity makes an appearance.

POTUS 59-41 🤣

I am waiting to see if GOP can restore my faith in my party or do I change parties. Let's do the right thing! Either way, POTUS45 lost my vote in next election.

Have Democrat sheep ever joined Republican causes in anything?

LOL the GOP doesn’t care about separation of powers to make it veto-proof. Constitutional conservatives my ass.

Tick tock, tick tock, waiting for the realDonaldTrump's tweet storm.

I will hold my breath till I die

Donald Trump 2020

I'm shocked

Should veto immediately

Ah LindseyGrahamSC - is there anyone in Congress more predictable? Sad shadow of who you could be.

Keep calm Donald!

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