As the United States works to limit the spread of COVID-19, states have responded in varying degrees. Many have closed public schools, limited the number of people in social gatherings, and ordered restaurants and bars to close their dining rooms. California, New York, and Illinois have effectively told their entire population to ‘shelter in place’,…
The Senate voted to put the ax to President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration which he planned to use to construct a border wall along the US/Mexico border on Thursday. This looks like it will set up the first veto battle with the current administration. The Senate passed a resolution to block the president’s emergency…
Evie Fordham President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter Wednesday that a Senate vote to terminate his national emergency for border wall funding is not about “constitutionality” but about “desperately needed” border security. “Senate Republicans are not voting on constitutionality or precedent, they are voting on desperately needed Border Security [and] the Wall,” Trump wrote. “Our Country…
Henry Rodgers Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul said there will be 10 Republican Senators who vote against the resolution to terminate President Donald Trump’s national emergency for border wall funding Monday afternoon. Paul told a group of reporters on Capitol Hill that he thinks there will be 10 Senators who vote against Texas Democratic Rep. Joaquin Castro’s resolution, which…
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) announced Saturday in a speech at Southern Kentucky Lincoln Day Dinner that he would vote in favor of a resolution blocking President Trump’s Emergency Declaration saying, “I can’t vote to give extra-Constitutional powers to the president.” In the speech given at an event mainly praising the actions of President Trump, Senator…