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House will vote in March to block Trump's border emergency
« on: February 21, 2019, 02:27:26 pm »
House will vote in March to block Trump's border emergency
by Susan Ferrechio
 | February 21, 2019 08:31 AM

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is urging Democrats to sign onto a resolution to block President Trump’s decision to declare a national emergency at the southern border, and said the House will vote on the measure next month.

“President Trump’s emergency declaration proclamation undermines the separation of powers and Congress’s power of the purse, a power exclusively reserved by the text of the Constitution to the first branch of government, the Legislative branch, a branch co-equal to the Executive,” Pelosi, D-Calif., wrote to House Democrats this week.

Trump last week declared a national emergency in order to take $3.6 billion out of the military construction budget and use it to construct physical barriers along the southern border.

Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, last week introduced a joint resolution to revoke the national emergency.
Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., plans to hold a hearing on Trump’s declaration when Congress returns next week.

Pelosi urged lawmakers to sign on to Castro’s measure.

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