A senior Senate Republican warned President Trump on Thursday to reconsider his emergency declaration for the southern border, hinting the GOP-controlled Senate could rebuke him and overturn it.
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Alexander refused to say whether he would join three other Republican senators who have said they will support the effort to rescind Trump’s emergency declaration.The resolutionTrump has said he will veto it if it reaches his desk, and neither chamber is expected to have the votes to override him. Trump issued his own warning Thursday in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, saying that Republicans who support the Democrats’ resolution are putting themselves in political risk.
“I think that really it’s a very dangerous thing for people to be voting against border security,” Trump said. “I think they put themselves at great jeopardy.” But Alexander said many other Republican senators share his view that the administration should find other ways to fund the wall. He“It is unnecessary and unwise to turn a border crisis into a constitutional crisis about separation of powers when the president already has congressional funding authority to build 234 miles of border wall that he requested,” Alexander said.
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