The Latest: Pelosi says no House vote on GOP emergency plan
Posted March 13, 2019 7:26 am.
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WASHINGTON — The Latest on the emergency declaration by President Donald Trump (all times local):
10:20 a.m.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the House won’t consider Republican legislation intended to curb the power of future presidents to unilaterally declare national emergencies.
Her announcement might make it harder for Republicans to prevent a high-profile rebuff of President Donald Trump’s effort to divert more money to building barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The White House and Republican senators are in talks about a bill that would give Congress more power to block emergency declarations from a president in the future.
The hope is that Trump would endorse that plan, and then more GOP senators would oppose a separate resolution blocking Trump’s current emergency declaration.
The Senate is scheduled to vote Thursday on that resolution. Its fate is unclear.
Pelosi says in a statement that the House “will not take up this legislation to give President Trump a pass.”
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12:05 a.m.
Opposition by a few Republican senators to President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration at the U.S.-Mexico border appears to be softening.
The White House and GOP senators are working on a compromise that would limit the power of presidents to declare national emergencies on their own.
A Senate vote is expected Thursday on a measure to reject Trump’s emergency declaration, which he’s using to get access to billions of dollars for building border barriers.
So far, four Republican senators have said they’ll vote with Democrats to oppose Trump’s emergency order. If Trump would commit to signing a bill that would handcuff future emergency declarations, some of those senators might support his border declaration.
Even if the Senate joins the House in rejecting Trump’s order, he could veto the measure.
The Associated Press
