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US Senate Republicans, in open revolt, vote against Donald Trump 'emergency declaration' forcing veto showdown
Fp Staff •US Senate Republicans launched their first major rebuke of US President Donald Trump voting against his ambitious 'emergency declaration' to build a border wall along the US-Mexico border. In voting against the move, Trump's own party is showing the first signs of breaking away as the 2020 campaigning shifts into higher gear and the wounds of the 2018 midterm loss remain fresh.
US budget 2020: Donald Trump likely to ask Congress for additional $8.6 bn to build Mexico border wall
•President Donald Trump on Monday will ask the US Congress for an additional $8.6 billion to help pay for his promised wall on the US-Mexico border to combat illegal immigration and drug trafficking
Donald Trump administration asks US military to house 5,000 migrant children amid mounting border crisis
•The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), "requested DoD support to identify space to house up to 5,000 unaccompanied alien children on DoD installations, if needed, through 30 September, 2019," said Pentagon spokesperson
Democrats grill US Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, say 'verbal gymnastics' won't change scars of family separation at border
•US Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen insisted Wednesday the crisis at the southern border is not manufactured, as she faced questions from Democrats for the first time since they took control of the House.
In huge blow to Donald Trump, Republican controlled US Senate has enough votes to reject emergency declaration over border wall funding
•US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell acknowledged Monday that opponents of President Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency along the U.S.-Mexico border have enough votes in the Republican-led Senate to prevail on a resolution aimed at blocking the move.
Donald Trump emergency declaration will be blocked by Democrats this Friday, setting up high stakes clash in 2020 run-up
•US House Democrats will file a resolution Friday aimed at blocking the national emergency declaration that President Donald Trump has issued to help finance his wall along the Southwest border, teeing up a clash over billions of dollars, immigration policy and the Constitution's separation of powers.
Legal battle looms after Donald Trump 'national emergency' declaration; California will be first to sue
Fp Staff •Legal pushback to US President Donald Trump’s “emergency declaration” is coming thick and fast after Trump’s dumpster fire style press conference in the White House Rose Garden where he predicted that the Supreme Court will eventually give him a “fair shake” and “we’ll win”.
Donald Trump says he will declare national emergency, use executive powers to bypass Congress over Mexico border wall
•Word that Trump would declare the emergency prompted condemnations from Democrats and threats of lawsuits from states and others who might lose federal money or said Trump was abusing his authority.
Donald Trump to declare 'national emergency' to build US -Mexico border wall after Congress swats him down: All you need to know
Nikhila Natrajan •US president Donald Trump has decided to invoke the power of his bully pulpit to declare a national emergency that will allow him to build his promised US-Mexico border wall after the US Senate okayed a border security compromise Thursday that ignores most of Trump's wall demands but will do enough to prevent a new government shutdown.
US Congress allocates fraction of billions needed for Mexico wall but Donald Trump claims victory anyway
•Even before seeing a final deal or agreeing to seal it, President Donald Trump laboured on Wednesday to frame the congressional agreement on border security as a political win, never mind that it contains only a fraction of the billions for a "great, powerful wall" that he's been demanding for months.