WASHINGTON ― The House took a first step to oppose President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration Tuesday, voting largely along party lines to block the president from redirecting military construction money to a border wall. The House agreed to the resolution 245-182, with 13 Republicans joining all Democrats in voting for the legislation to rescind Trump’s declaration. But Republicans seemed to draw a line between this national emergency and future, theoretical ones. And Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) ― recently back from a stint in the Air Force National Guard Reserves ― told a story about how he came to believe the situation is a genuine national emergency. “But I did not see a national emergency that would justify the president ignoring the Constitution.”Hoyer then quoted from Trump’s Feb. 15 press conference declaring a national emergency, where Trump said: “I could do the wall over a longer period of time.

Source: Huffington Post February 26, 2019 23:37 UTC