The US House of Representatives ignored White House veto threats and muscled through legislation annulling President Donald Trump's declared emergency on the southern border
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi leads House Democrats in a news conference about their proposed resolution to terminate U.S. President Trump's Emergency Declaration on the southern border with Mexico, at the US Capitol in Washington, U.S. February 25, 2019.
McConnell said Republican senators and Pence held a "robust, vigorous discussion" and that he had not "reached a total conclusion" over whether Trump's emergency proclamation was legal. "The current situation at the southern border presents a humanitarian and security crisis that threatens core national security interests and constitutes a national emergency," the White House statement warned.
"When you see the vote today, there will be nowhere near the votes to override a veto," US Representative Steve Scalise, the No. 2 House Republican, told reporters on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. In his first two years in office, Trump's Republicans controlled both chambers of Congress, which under the US Constitution holds the national purse strings.
That set up a test of the constitutional separation of powers between Congress and the presidency that will likely lead to a court challenge after lawmakers deal with the resolution.
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