The Christian County Republican Central Committee disinvited Blunt after he backed a resolution disapproving of President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency along the U.S.-Mexico border, the Kansas City Star reported.
By Felicia Sonmez Felicia Sonmez National reporter on The Washington Post's breaking political news team Email Bio Follow March 18 at 5:41 PM A county Republican Party in Missouri has disinvited Sen. Roy Blunt from its annual dinner to protest his vote in favor of a resolution disapproving of President Trump’s national emergency declaration.
The county party’s website lists Missouri State House Speaker Elijah Haahr as a special guest for the event. “Why could you not support my president in the emergency declaration?” Martens wrote to Blunt, according to the report. “President Trump tried every available means to work the Senate to resolve the border issue and build the much needed wall. He is well within his presidential powers to do this.”The vote on the disapproval resolution marked congressional Republicans’ first significant defection from Trump in more than two years.
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