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US House and Senate voted to block Trump's order of national emergency; today President Trump Trump issues first veto of his presidency to continue his southern border building
Friday, March 15, 2019
Trump issues first veto of his presidency (Screenshot from CNN) |
VietPress USA (March 15, 2019): During his 2016 Presidential campaign, Donald Trump vowed to build up a strong concreted wall along border between US and Mexico at the full expenses paid by Mexico; but Mexican President replied that his country never pay a cent for Trump's wall.
Therefore, President Trump request the US Congress to accept his proposed fund of US$ 5 Billion for southern border wall. Regret that since January 2019, Democrats won the majority to control the House and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared never accept Trump's wall.
To put pressure for his aim, President Trump started his longest partial federal government shutdown of 35 days that began at midnight on Dec. 22, 2018. Trump agreed to stop the government shutdown for 3 weeks in order Nancy Pelosi will invite him to give his new year 2019 Union of Nation speech.
At the end of 3 week deadline, President Trump declared his first National Emergency to bypass Congress for using money from Military budget of US$8.6 Billion to build up his southern border wall.
Last month, the House passed the resolution to block Trump;s order of National Emergency at 245 (including 13 Republicans) to 182.
Yesterday on Thursday, the Senate voted by a margin of 59 to 41 to block Trump’s declaration or National Emergency and denied an emergency on the border with Mexico requires the construction of a wall, a project for which Congress has not appropriated money. A dozen Republicans defected and joined every Democrat in voting yes to block Trump's national emergency.
Yoday on Friday, March 15, 2019, President Donald Trump signed the first veto of his presidency, insisting the situation on the southern frontier amounted to a threat to Americans’ safety.
“Congress has the freedom to pass this resolution and I have the duty to veto it,” Trump said from the Oval Office before officially sending the measure back to Congress without his approval.
Trump said the resolution, which would have reversed the national emergency, “put countless Americans in danger.”
“There haven’t been too many that are bigger emergency than what we have” at our border, he said.
Trump was surrounded at Friday’s event by officials from Customs and Border Protection as well as surviving family members of those who have loved ones killed by undocumented immigrants. Attorney General William Barr was also at the President’s veto event.
It is the first time in his two years in office that Trump has used his presidential veto power to block legislation and comes after a dozen Senate Republicans joined Democrats to rebuke Trump’s use of his national emergency power to bypass Congress and fund construction of a border wall.
“Today I am vetoing this resolution,” said Trump. “Congress has the freedom to pass this resolution and I have the duty to veto it and I’m very proud to veto it.”
Unless more Republicans defect from the president’s position, neither margin would be sufficient to override a veto.
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Trump issues first veto, continuing border 'emergency'
President Trump issued the first veto of his presidency, striking down a resolution that would have terminated his national emergency declaration diverting funding to build the wall.
The Senate voted Thursday by a margin of 59 to 41 to block Trump’s declaration that an emergency on the border with Mexico requires the construction of a wall, a project for which Congress has not appropriated money. A dozen Republicans defected and joined every Democrat in voting yes. The House previously passed the resolution last month, 245 (including 13 Republicans) to 182. Unless more Republicans defect from the president’s position, neither margin would be sufficient to override a veto.
“Today I am vetoing this resolution,” said Trump. “Congress has the freedom to pass this resolution and I have the duty to veto it and I’m very proud to veto it.”
Trump’s reelection campaign began fundraising off the veto early Friday afternoon, sending out an email asking supporters to donate to an “Official Wall Defense Fund.” Homeland Defense Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, Attorney General William Barr and Vice President Mike Pence were among those who praised Trump’s veto during the Oval Office ceremony.
Shortly after the veto was official, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that the vote to potentially override the veto would occur on March 26, saying "House Republicans will have to choose between their partisan hypocrisy and their sacred oath to support and defend the Constitution."
Trump had sought to frame the issue as voting for him or for “Nancy Pelosi, Crime and the Open Border Democrats.” The dozen senators who went against the White House were Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Roy Blunt of Missouri, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Rob Portman of Ohio, Marco Rubio of Florida, Jerry Moran of Kansas, Roger Wicker of Mississippi and Mitt Romney and Mike Lee, both of Utah.
Lee proposed a version of the resolution that would have restricted future emergency declarations while grandfathering in Trump's, but he couldn’t reach a compromise agreement with the White House, and the plan fizzled.
“We tried to cut a deal,” Lee said. “The president didn’t appear interested.”
The wall was a signature campaign issue for Trump, but he was never able to deliver on his promise to make Mexico pay for it, and the issue languished during his first two years in office. The emergency declaration came after Trump failed to win an appropriation for a border wall in a continuing resolution to fund the government last fall. The resulting deadlock shut the government for five weeks, during which time workers were furloughed or forced to work without pay.
In declaring an emergency on Feb. 15, Trump cited drug smuggling across the border from Mexico (misleading), the drop in crime in El Paso, Texas, after a partial border barricade was built there (not true) and reports of women kidnapped, bound with tape and trafficked into the United States across unguarded sections of the border (no evidence exists of this). Hours later, he flew to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida for a weekend of golf.
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