Senate Rejects Trump Border Emergency, Setting Up Veto Showdown
- President says he’ll veto measure and Congress won’t override
- Republican defections show greater willingness to buck Trump
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The Senate voted to block President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to pay for a wall at the border with Mexico, setting up his first veto and highlighting a growing willingness by Republicans in the chamber to split with their president.
The 59-41 vote Thursday was short of the 67 needed to override a veto. It’s already clear that Trump’s rejection of the measure would be sustained in the Democratic-led House, which lacked a two-thirds majority in approving the resolution last month. Still, the Senate vote is an embarrassing show of GOP disunity with the party’s leader.