Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, Mitt Romney of Utah and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania said they’d vote Thursday for a resolution to annul the border emergency Trump declared last month. Thursday’s vote would be the first time Congress has rejected a presidential emergency under the 1976 National Emergency Act. Republicans had hoped that if Trump would endorse a separate bill by Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, constraining emergency declarations in the future, it would win over enough GOP senators to reject the resolution blocking his border emergency. But Trump told Lee on Wednesday that he opposed Lee’s legislation, prompting Lee himself to say he would back the resolution thwarting the border emergency in Thursday’s vote. Lee proposed letting a presidential emergency last 30 days unless Congress votes to extend it.

Source: National Post March 14, 2019 04:14 UTC