Dems set up Tuesday vote to block Trump's emergency declaration
By Mike Lillis - 02/22/19 10:46 AM EST
House Democrats are wasting no time in their effort to block President Trump's emergency declaration at the southwest border, scheduling a floor vote Tuesday on the disapproval resolution introduced Friday by Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas).
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced the plan Friday on a conference call with reporters, where she framed Trump's unilateral move as an "institutional assault" that defies the constitutionally dictated separation of powers and threatens the working of the country's democracy.
"The president's act is lawless and does violence to our constitution and therefore to our democracy," she said.
"We do not have a monarchy; we have a separation of powers in our country."
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