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riversedge

(70,242 posts) Wed Mar 13, 2019, 09:22 PM Mar 2019

Trump and Dems destroy GOP effort to escape national emergency bind

Source: Politico

The president told Senate Republicans he would not agree to curtail his powers in order to stem defections on the disapproval vote.

Updated 03/13/2019 04:19 PM EDT

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The president delivered the news in a phone call to Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) during a Republican lunch on Wednesday, according to three people familiar with the call. Trump told the Utah senator that he would not be able to endorse Lee's effort to change the National Emergencies Act to require congressional approval of emergency declarations — derailing a push by Republicans to find some way out of a confrontation with the president.

Lee later said he was going to vote for the disapproval resolution. And Trump said on Wednesday if senators vote against him it will be a "very bad thing."

"I told Republican senators, vote any way you want. Vote how you feel good. But I think it's bad for a Republican senator. I also think it's bad for a Democrat senator to vote against border security and to vote against the wall. I think if they vote that way, it's a very bad thing for them, long into the future," he told reporters on Wednesday.

The move sparked the second blow of the day for Senate Republicans searching for peace with the White House. Earlier Wednesday, Democratic leaders moved to box in Republicans by publicly declaring that the GOP effort to curtail the presidential use of future emergencies would not fly with them.
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Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/13/democrats-national-emergency-vote-1219997

Trump is NOT a winner today MEGA folks!!

Link to tweet

Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer implored the Senate GOP on Wednesday morning to vote with Senate Democrats to disapprove of the president's national emergency declaration. | AP Photo/Andrew Harnik

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Trump and Dems destroy GOP effort to escape national emergency bind (Original Post) riversedge Mar 2019 OP

That crunch was tRump throwing Pence under the bus. Pence had proposed it to R Senators. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2019 #1

Pence was moronic to try to sell this plan to GOP Senators in the first place -- Pelosi would never RockRaven Mar 2019 #2

That Proposal Could Never Fly And Pence Should Have Known This DallasNE Mar 2019 #3

The sad fact is that Pence just isn't very bright COLGATE4 Mar 2019 #8

The emergency only exists in Trump's tiny mind rickyhall Mar 2019 #4

Trump IS the emergency olddad65 Mar 2019 #5

True rickyhall Mar 2019 #6

I think Repukes are looking at how much good Fat Donnie did for them in 2018 LastLiberal in PalmSprings Mar 2019 #7

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,002 posts)

1. That crunch was tRump throwing Pence under the bus. Pence had proposed it to R Senators. . . . nt

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Mar 13, 2019, 09:25 PM

Mar 2019

RockRaven

(14,972 posts)

2. Pence was moronic to try to sell this plan to GOP Senators in the first place -- Pelosi would never

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Mar 13, 2019, 09:35 PM

Mar 2019

go along with it, AND THEY KNOW THAT, meaning the thing Pence was offering in trade was... NOTHING.

Or worse than nothing, really, it was the opportunity to appear to have been conned by the most oafish and obvious con-man in history.

DallasNE

(7,403 posts)

3. That Proposal Could Never Fly And Pence Should Have Known This

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Mar 13, 2019, 09:42 PM

Mar 2019

An assurance from Trump is worthless. Just ask Susan Collins. Indeed, Pence should not have broached Republican Senators with his ploy without first having Trump's approval in his hip pocket. Another example of how Republicans don't know how to lead. Any wonder things are such a mess.