Senate Takes Another Meaningless Wall Vote Only for Trump to Likely Veto It – Again
The Senate voted this week to terminate the national emergency declared by the president on February 15, 2019. That declaration allowed the Department of Defense (DoD) to move appropriated funds from other accounts into the account DoD uses to fund its counternarcotic efforts in order to undertake construction of border barriers in certain areas in California, Arizona, and Texas. The vote is meaningless because the president will likely veto it again, as he did with a prior iteration.
I wrote about the president's declaration last month, in connection with a Supreme Court decision that allowed that funding to proceed. The Department of Justice's application to the Court in connection with that order noted the following:
“On February 25, 2019, DHS submitted a request to DoD for DoD's assistance, pursuant to 10 U.S.C. 284, ‘with the construction of fences[,] roads, and lighting’ within 11 specified project areas, ‘to block drug-smuggling corridors across the international boundary between the United States and Mexico.’
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