Trump's emergency declaration over border wall funding has split the Senate Republican caucus, which has to choose whether to back the GOP president's priorities or follow through on a professed skepticism of executive power.
The Senate will vote Thursday on whether to block President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration, forcing Republicans to decide if they should check the White House's flex of executive power.
Trump's declaration has split the Senate Republican caucus, which has to choose whether to back the GOP president's priorities or follow through on a professed skepticism of executive power. On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters that he thinks"everybody in [his] conference is in favor of the president's position on the wall and on border security," but not necessarily the steps he took to fund the project.
The Senate GOP leader noted that any changes would not apply to Trump's emergency declaration. McConnell said the question more broadly surrounds whether the 1976 law granted too much power to the president.
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