BREAKING NEWS: House votes to block Trump's national emergency declaration
The House voted Tuesday to overturn President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration, delivering a harsh rebuke to the president's attempt to go around Congress to fund a border wall.
Still, Democratic leaders made a last-ditch attempt to shore up GOP support on Tuesday, with dramatic floor speeches that referenced the “founding fathers” and Martin Luther King, Jr. to argue against Trump’s constitutional power grab. “We have a constitutional mission and a mandate to preserve the balance of power and to oppose this monument of hate,” Rep. John Lewis , a civil rights icon, said in another fiery floor speech ahead of the vote.
In the Senate, Democrats are inching toward a victory. Just one more GOP supporter is needed to send the measure to Trump's desk. Congress has never previously voted to overturn a president's national emergency declaration. “This is the most significant vote that this Congress has taken, probably in a generation, on the balances of powers between the president and Congress,” Rep. Joaquin Castro , who drafted the resolution, told reporters Tuesday ahead of the vote.
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