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The Senate fails to override Trump's veto on its national emergency resolution
The Senate’s attempts to block a national emergency that President Donald Trump declared along the southern border were stymied yet again on Thursday.
While a majority of lawmakers had previously voted in favor of a resolution to terminate the emergency, which Trump has used to shift funding from other military construction projects to his border wall, not enough ultimately backed it to overcome a veto from the president.
Instead, senators voted 36-53 to uphold Trump’s veto, an expected outcome. At least 20 Republicans would have needed to band with Democrats in order to hit the 67-member supermajority needed to nullify the veto.
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Congress is able to take a vote on the emergency every six months, according to the National Emergencies Act of 1976, and Democrats have been keen to use this rule to put both Trump and Republican senators on the spot about the border wall.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-senate-fails-to-override-trumps-veto-on-its-national-emergency-resolution/ar-AAIWlf9?li=BBnb7Kz
