House resolution to end Trump's national non-emergency will be introduced on Friday
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A week into the national non-emergency, Democrats are preparing to introduce a bill to end Donald Trump’s “I didn’t have to do this” farce. The very brief resolution, which simply declares Trump’s emergency declaration “terminated,” will be filHouse resolution to end Trump's national non-emergency will be introduced on Friday
A week into the national non-emergency, Democrats are preparing to introduce a bill to end Donald Trump’s “I didn’t have to do this” farce. The very brief resolution, which simply declares Trump’s emergency declaration “terminated,” will be filed soon after the House opens for business on Friday. Its passage is being spearheaded in the House by Congressional Hispanic Caucus chair Joaquin Castro, a Texas Democrat who has stated that he already has at least one Republican ready to sign on to the bill. As CNN reported on Thursday, Nancy Pelosi spent the day lining up the vote with Democratic House members and inviting Republicans to join them in ending Trump’s overreach. A number of Republicans in both the House and the Senate have expressed something ranging from “discomfort” to “outrage” at Trump’s action, but it’s not known if any of them signed on as co-sponsors of the resolution before a Thursday afternoon deadline. According to USA Today, the bill will be introduced early on Friday and is expected to pass in the Democratic-majority House. It would then face a required vote in the Senate within 18 days—though it could happen sooner if Mitch McConnell were to bring it to the floor. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer is preparing to introduce a matching resolution. Should the bill pass out of the House with anything more than one or two Republican votes, it could add to pressures to what CNN is describing as “the longest 18 days” of Mitch McConnell’s career. McConnell publicly announced that he was supporting Trump’s emergency declaration in order to get his signature on the government funding bill and avoid a second shutdown, but he did so over the vocal protest of several members of his own party. If a handful of those Republicans decided to follow through and sign on to support the resolution, it could pass in the Senate as well as in the House, putting it on Trump’s desk for what the White House has already announced is a certain veto. But just getting that far would risk a schism in the Republican Party over signing away the role of Congress in order to support Trump. After a decade of chest-thumping about executive overreach for every minor action taken by Barack Obama, Republicans finally have a chance to vote on something that addresses a genuinely massive and obvious abuse of power. But Mitch McConnell is likely to use his role in the Senate to protect Trump’s gutting of the Senate’s power right up to the last bitter moment. Read more