Republican Senator Mike Lee will vote for resolution ending Trump's national emergency declaration



President Trump says that he thinks it is a bad vote to be against border security.

Sen. Mike Lee on Wednesday became the fifth Republican to announce support for the House-passed resolution to terminate President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration to pay for a border well, ensuring the measure will almost certainly pass Thursday.

"For decades, Congress has been giving far too much legislative power to the executive branch," Mike Lee turns against Trump’s National Emergency!


Early this year Senator Mike Lee said he believed that Trump’s national emergency was legal even though he disagreed with it:

Fast forward to this week. A couple days ago we told you that there were negotiations going on between GOP senators and the president, to find a deal so that they could support Trump’s national emergency. Mike Lee was apart of those negotiations.

Well apparently they broke down and now Lee is going to vote against Trump’s national emergency when the resolution comes up for a vote in the Senate:


Alex Bolton is a staff writer for The Hill, just so you know.
This will no doubt upset a lot of Republicans who did not want to see Trump have to veto the disapproval resolution. But with four Republicans already set to vote no, the passage of the resolution is all but certain.

And then there were five: Lee, Tillis, Paul, Collins and Murkowski.

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