Key GOP senator offers ultimatum to Trump on border emergency
Source: Politico
Sen. Lamar Alexander delivered an ultimatum to President Donald Trump on Thursday: Reconsider your national emergency declaration at the border or face a potential rebellion from the GOP.
The retiring Tennessee Republican declined to state whether he will become the deciding senator to block the presidents maneuver, instead taking to the Senate floor to try and convince Trump that he has other ways to collect $5.7 billion for the border wall the precise amount of money he demanded during the government shutdown fight.
Hes got sufficient funding without a national emergency, he can build a wall and avoid a dangerous precedent, Alexander told reporters afterward. That would change the voting situation if he we were to agree to do that.
Three other Republicans have said they would join Democrats in voting for a resolution to block Trump, and only one more is needed for the Senate to successfully reject Trumps declaration.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/28/lamar-alexander-trump-national-emergency-1196748
If Alexander, Collins, Murkowski and Paul are banked, that's enough for a win.
louis c
(8,652 posts)nevergiveup
(4,762 posts)mark my word he will cave in the end. He always does.
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)Once the 260 lb. crybaby gets his wall, what will he do with Canada? We can't have people getting health care and affordable meds from those maple-smelling socialists.
TrogL
(32,822 posts)And I smell like diesel fumes.
maxrandb
(15,330 posts)and call any of them sane?
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,343 posts)And he'll buy at least one Supreme Court vote with a case of brewskis.
lark
(23,102 posts)The question is will he stand up for the constitution or for tyranny of the oligarchs?
Corrected typo
BigmanPigman
(51,599 posts)lark
(23,102 posts)We will soon see.
BigmanPigman
(51,599 posts)I forget what it was exactly. I have heard various pundits say that he may begin to be more liberal to balance the court after Kavanaugh was confirmed. RBG was more central and when the court went conservative she became more liberal (she said that on her film). Maybe Roberts will do the same.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)telling these suckers,their days are numbered and if they want to survive,they had better bite the bullet and kill off Trump's wall.
Javaman
(62,530 posts)volstork
(5,401 posts)Had to tolerate him as governor (before I could vote), and have had to tolerate him as senator for more years than he deserved. He's a posturing douchebag.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)He's not normally one to side-step the party line.
But, I'm glad he went public.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)A criminal who has so far shown his word isn't worth the spit in his mouth?
This sounds like a way for the Republicans to get around the potential bad results after they DON'T vote to stop it. "Well, he promised he wouldn't go through with it. So there was no need to vote against it. I'm innocent. I relied on the President's assurances. If you can't rely on the President's word, then what can you rely on?" My response to that is....exactly. If you can't rely on the President, what can you rely on? Not on Republicans in Congress, for sure.
hibbing
(10,098 posts)beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)they are ready yet to rebel. Time is getting close.
forklift
(401 posts)They are lions until it is time to vote and they turn into sheep and go with the herd.