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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Fri Sep 27, 2019, 03:10 PM Sep 2019

House votes to block Trump's national emergency over the border, setting up another veto

The House voted Friday to block the national emergency declaration President Donald Trump is using to fund his proposed border wall.

The Democratic-held chamber passed a resolution to terminate Trump's action by a 236-174 margin, sending it to the president. Eleven Republicans and one independent supported it. The Senate already approved the measure in a 54-41 vote, as 11 Republicans joined Democrats in backing it.

Trump will likely veto the resolution, the sixth time he will have blocked congressional legislation as president. He already vetoed a measure to end the emergency declaration in March.

Neither chamber of Congress appears to have the two-thirds majority needed to override the president's opposition.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-votes-to-block-trumps-national-emergency-over-the-border-setting-up-another-veto/ar-AAHWl1u?li=BBnbcA1

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