“I understand that the president is disappointed that the funding that he requested did not pass,” Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said Thursday. Collins is a co-sponsor of the Senate resolution to rescind Trump’s order. “But the failure of Congress to pass funding in the amount the president prefers cannot become an excuse for the president to usurp the powers of the [legislative] branch.”

Source: Los Angeles Times February 28, 2019 21:00 UTC