House Votes to Block Trump's Border Emergency Declaration

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Source: New York Times



WASHINGTON -- The House voted on Tuesday to overturn President Trump's declaration of a national emergency on the Mexican border, with more than a dozen Republicans joining Democrats to try to block his effort to divert funding to a border wall without congressional approval.

The resolution of disapproval, which passed 245-182, must now be taken up by the Senate, where three Republicans have already declared their support, only one short of the number needed for Congress to ratify a stinging rebuke of Mr. Trump's efforts.

It remains highly unlikely that opponents will muster the votes to overturn a promised veto of the resolution. But passage of a measure to assert Congress's constitutional authority over spending is sure to bolster numerous lawsuits that maintain that Mr. Trump's declaration is an unconstitutional end run around Congress's lawful power of the purse.

"Is your oath of office to Donald Trump or is it to the Constitution of the United States?" Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked her Republican colleagues in a speech on the floor ahead of the vote. "You cannot let him undermine your pledge to the Constitution."

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/26/us/politics/national-emergency-vote.html

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Looking at that vote count, there are 8 votes missing (1 I know one missing is that NC GOPer due to the fraudulent election in a district). This should have been unanimous among Democrats but apparently it wasn't (or there were people not voting/not there).

EDIT - per hlthe2b, vote breakdown

Majority vote
Vote to Block Emergency Declaration
Yes No Not voting
Democrats 232 0 3
Republicans 13 182 2
Total 245 182 5
Members can change their votes while voting is in progress.


Note: There are currently three vacancies in the House.

Edit to add link to the roll call vote (with names) - http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2019/roll094.xml