Majority Leader McConnell acknowledged Monday that he believes the Senate will vote this month to terminate the national emergency President Trump declared at the US-Mexico border, likely triggering the president's first veto.
“I would literally lose my political soul if I decided to treat President Trump different than President Obama,” he continued.
The other three Republicans who have voiced support for the resolution are Sens. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Susan Collins, R-Maine. Both Tillis and Collins are up for re-election next year. Similarly, Paul had suggested he wouldn’t support Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, but eventually voted to confirm him.
“I support what the president is doing on border security. I do not support the way he has been advised to do it,” he said. “There has never been an instance where a president of the United States has asked for funding, Congress has refused it and the president then used the national emergency act to justify spending the money anyway.”
“There's a lot of spirit in the House, and I think in the Senate too, but we're going to have to see because we have a vote coming up,” he said about the Senate vote. “And a lot of people talk about precedent. Precedent. That if we do this, the Democrats will use national emergency powers for something that we don't want. They're going to do that anyway, folks. The best way to stop that is to make sure that I win the election. That's the best way to stop that.
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