The Senate is set to pass a resolution overturning the president’s border emergency in a major rebuke to Trump
A growing number of Senate Republicans — including Mitt Romney of Utah and Lamar Alexander of Tennessee — will support a House resolution to overturn President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the southern border.Romney and Alexander are the latest GOP senators to break with the president on his plans to unilaterally steer funds to his border wall, joining Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Mike Lee of Utah. Sen.
Alexander reiterated his support for Trump’s border wall while emphasizing Congress’ role as a check on the executive branch on the Senate floor. Alexander said after his speech that he will support the House resolution. Only a simple majority is needed to pass the resolution under congressional rules, though Trump has vowed to veto the measure.
The impending vote of disapproval over Trump’s emergency declaration comes a day after the Senate voted on legislation to scale back the U.S. role in the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen’s bloody civil war, a move Trump has also pledged to veto.
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