Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) predicted Monday that a resolution seeking to block President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border would pass in the Republican-led Senate but ultimately not survive a veto. [Republican Sen. Rand Paul says he will vote for measure blocking Trump’s emergency declaration, paving way for passage]The House previously passed the measure to block Trump’s declaration, but Democrats in the chamber fell well short of securing the two-thirds vote that would be necessary to overturn a threatened veto from Trump. While Trump appears to have the votes to withstand a veto in the Republican-led Senate as well, passage of the measure would still serve as rebuke of the president’s policy. McConnell told reporters that he had hoped Trump “wouldn’t take that particular path” of declaring a national emergency. “That’s one reason I argued, obviously without success, to the president that he not take this route,” McConnell said.

Source: Washington Post March 04, 2019 17:21 UTC