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Home Front: Politix
Trump vetoes measure to end his emergency declaration on border wall
2019-10-17
[DAWN] United States President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
has vetoed a joint resolution of Congress that sought to terminate his declaration of a national emergency on the southern border with Mexico, the White House said on Tuesday.

Trump declared the emergency to circumvent Congress and take money already designated for other programmes to pay for the US-Mexico border wall he promised to build during his 2016 campaign.

Last month, the Democratic-led House passed the joint resolution by 236-174, as 11 Republicans and one independent joined Democrats to vote in favour.

The Republican-led Senate had approved the measure days earlier, by 54-41. Eleven of the Senate's 53 Republicans joined Democrats favouring the resolution.

"The situation on our southern border remains a national emergency, and our armed forces are still needed to help confront it," Trump said in his veto message.

Posted by:Fred

#4  ^ EXACTLY. Nothing better shows the madness of our current elites than this idiotic notion, above.

Our self-proclaimed Global Citizens don't even begin to grasp the meaning of American citizenship.

By definition, real citizens of real nations have rights that non-citizens lack. There is no f---ing right to be present in this country for someone who entered illegally, and no right to education, or health insurance, or any other of the benefits accorded to citizens.
Posted by: Lex   2019-10-17 17:09  

#3  So we should protect Syria's borders but not our own?
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-10-17 17:05  

#2  Eleven of the Senate's 53 Republicans joined Democrats favouring the resolution.

"...Those funds were earmarked to pay for pork in my, MY District! How dare you. Sir! How dare You!"
Posted by: magpie   2019-10-17 12:56  

#1  That cartel money buys a helluva lot of influence.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2019-10-17 10:10  

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