The Senate has blocked the introduction of the state of emergency Trump on the border

The US Senate, the majority in which are Republicans, on March 14 blocked an announcement by President Donald Trump of a state of emergency on the southwestern border.

After that, the presidential veto will most likely follow, and the Congress’s efforts to overcome it, writes NBC.

Senators' votes were distributed 59 to 41 for the abolition of Trump’s introduction of the state of emergency at the border, adopted in February, which he introduced in an attempt to obtain funding for the construction of a wall on the border with Mexico. During the voting, 12 Republicans joined the Democrats in a decision to cancel the state of emergency imposed by the president.

After the House of Representatives approved the resolution on the abolition of the state of emergency in late February, the Senate’s approval sends this document to Trump, who has already announced that he is ready to veto this document. Moreover, the resolution did not receive two thirds of votes in any House of Congress, which would be enough to overcome the veto.

A few minutes after the vote, the president wrote in his microblog Twitter: “Veto!”.

Later, the president wrote about the readiness to veto the adopted document and thanked for the support of the Republicans who took his side.

The situation with blocking the state of emergency is unique - it is the first time Congress has blocked a presidential emergency since the passage of the law and the US emergency in 1976.

Even before the Senate vote, there were assumptions that senators from the Republican Party, who would vote to block the emergency, would face political consequences. The White House official who wished to remain unnamed said that Trump will remember this when senators who oppose him ask him to attend a fundraising event or provide other assistance.

Trump himself did not answer when journalists asked him whether there would be consequences for the Republicans who voted against him.

Republicans control the Senate with the seat ratio 53 to 47. Democrats strongly opposed the Trump Declaration, supported by some of the Republicans.

After the emergency law was passed in 1976, the presidents declared 58 emergencies in the country, but this was the first time that such a decision was to gain access to money that Congress did not want to highlight, Elizabeth Goyteyn, a national security specialist at the Justice Center, explained. Brennan at New York University Law School.

Trump and the Republicans supporting him said that there was a real humanitarian crisis and a security threat on the border with Mexico. They also said that Trump is simply exercising his powers in accordance with the law, which largely leaves it to the presidents’s discretion about what a state of emergency is.

“The President is operating within existing law, and the crisis at our border is very real,” said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Pa.).

Opponents of the state of emergency have stated that Trump’s statement about the emergency is an exaggeration. They are sure that he introduced a state of emergency only because Congress refused to allocate the amount requested by the president for the construction of the wall. They stressed that the Constitution gives Congress, rather than presidents, control over spending, and that expanding emergency powers by Trump could set a dangerous precedent for the presidents to use such a scheme in the future.

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