McConnell: Measure to block Trump’s national emergency has enough votes to pass Senate

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McConnell: Measure to block Trump’s national emergency has enough votes to pass Senate
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The chamber’s majority leader predicted, however, that Congress would not override a threatened veto by the president.

By John Wagner John Wagner National reporter leading The Post's breaking political news team Email Bio Follow March 4 at 12:38 PM Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell predicted Monday that a resolution seeking to block President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border would pass in the Republican-led Senate but ultimately not survive a veto.

[Republican Sen. Rand Paul says he will vote for measure blocking Trump’s emergency declaration, paving way for passage] McConnell told reporters that he had hoped Trump “wouldn’t take that particular path” of declaring a national emergency. Paul said in a speech Saturday in Kentucky that he “can’t vote to give extra-Constitutional powers to the president,” the Bowling Green Daily News reported.

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