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Enough Republicans In Senate Will Likely Nix Trump’s National Emergency To Build His Wall, Forcing A Veto
And Rand Paul Makes Four…
The Republican senator from Kentucky, who is often an ally to Trump, refusing to back the President for all the right reasons. He’s quoted in the Bowling Green Daily News (which weirdly characterizes the pronouncement as Paul “veering slightly off course”) as saying:
“I can’t vote to give extra-Constitutional powers to the president….I can’t vote to give the president the power to spend money that hasn’t been appropriated by Congress….We may want more money for border security, but Congress didn’t authorize it. If we take away those checks and balances, it’s a dangerous thing.”
We don’t see how any Member of Congress can look at it any other way. And as Paul, who was mostly complimentary of Trump during his Kentucky speech this weekend points out, this should not have anything to do with whether they agree Trump should build his wall or not. Because the President’s action in and of itself is an attack on themselves individually, the branch of government they represent (which is supposed to be equal to, not subservient to the Presidency, especially when it comes to allocation of funds), and the Constitution, which plainly lays out all of what we just said.
