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© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2019.Trump vetoes lawmakers' measure against border wall
By Jeff Mason and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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SuperLib
I guess Trump just couldn't get it negotiated.
Chip Star
Master negotiator, as Super pointed out.
Trump is good at one thing as president, beyond sweet hair and fake tan, obviously: generating lawsuits.
CrazyJoe
Go for it Trump. The next Democrat President can then use their national emergency powers to push for Medicare for All, Climate Change, and Gun Control.
This is untrue. Congress has more than a plenty of votes to overturn the veto.
The question is whether Republicans have the stones to enforce their Constitutional rights.
They might.
Strangerland
Trump just unilaterally decided the president should have more power than congress. And the right pretends they believe in the words of the founding fathers. Pathetic.
Simon Foston
StrangerlandToday 07:11 am JST
Some of the right also like to pretend that Trump has a popular mandate, which election results have consistently shown is a lot of laughable rubbish. It's Congress that is doing what most Americans want, even some of the Republicans.
bass4funk
Congress is the problem.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/congressional_job_approval-903.html
Anyway, great news! Go Mr. President, we and so many more are behind you on this.
SuperLib
McConnell is the poster child for weak Republicans. He clearly said that he does not support Trump's actions, then he voted for it.
What a spineless waste of human flesh. He defines the GOP.
Blacklabel
It’s called a veto. Everyone uses it.
Blacklabel
McConnell and others voted how they feel about how Trump did it. There are few to no Republicans who are against what he needs to do.
If the president had to do what Congress says then Congress would be the president. They are not.
Build the wall.
bass4funk
He is? Funny, he’s not letting any of the Democrats crazy far left progressive agendas get to the Senate floor. If he’s weak, he’s my weak guy.
Because Trump is President and the majority of Republicans do support Trump’s actions, even a few Republicans that are up for re-election support him,
Yeah...lol When Reid was in the Senate and we said that every liberal looked at Reid and respected him more than The Pope.
Texas A&M Aggie
President Trump has now vetoed the resolution to terminate his emergency declaration at the border, the first veto of his presidency.
A quick history lesson:
THE LAST 5 PRESIDENTIAL veto numbers:
Obama: 12
W. Bush: 12
Clinton: 37
H.W. Bush: 44
Reagan: 78
plasticmonkey
*No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law;*
--Article 1, Section 9, Clause 7 of the Constitution of the United States of America
The key word is law, which is what the legislative branch makes, not the executive.
Blacklabel
Yet Trump will veto the bill and get the money. So there is obviously another law that allows this.
Blacklabel
Was there a law that funded Obamacare? Was there a law that funds expenses incurred by DACA? Hmmm
Serrano
I guess Trump just couldn't get it negotiated.
I guess Congress just couldn't do their job.
It's a shame Trump has to go through all this BS to do his job. Great job, Mr. President, the real Americans are behind you.
bass4funk
Uh-huh...well, in other news it seems newly appointed AG Barr agrees 110% with the President. Now we are getting somewhere! Thank you again, Mr. President!
Strangerland
How many of those vetos by other presidents ursurped congressional power and that the checks and balances created by the founding fathers?
Serrano
It's about time we had a president that put the American people first.
Strangerland
Yes, it's quite clear you guys want to do that.
Except when it's about the 2nd amendment.
Strangerland
Weird comment considering the fact that both the people and their elected representatives have been clear that they don't want the wall.
Texas A&M Aggie
We finally have an Attorney General and a President who are for Americans and not for Globalists.
Now it's Nancy's turn. Good luck with trying to get 3/4 of the House to overrule our president's veto.
starpunk
It's time to veto Dumpster's term in office. Everything he has done has been an illegal act, a crime.
For instance, what justification is there for the mass kidnapping of migrant children? Those Trumpettes can't come up with any excuse because they know it's immoral and illegal? Where is the justification for that?
There's no excuse or defending such an awful action! I haven't heard ONE 'justification' for any of that.
Goodlucktoyou
he was democratically elected on building the fence. this is not Venezuela. you can't just change the election results because you wanna steal oil.
SuperLib
"The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), often shortened to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or nicknamed Obamacare, is a United States federal statute enacted by the 111th United States Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. "
It's funded via U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement budget, most likely. And expenses? Not sure what you mean. They just placed a priority on violent criminals but their job was the same.
They did. They voted, and Trump lost.
Except in his manufacturing. And his resorts. And his wives.
And real Americans support the Constitution over a temporary President who can't negotiate the things he wants.
SuperLib
When you establish a pecking order among races, you're establishing the fact that a pecking order exists. Where you make the mistake is NOT realizing that it supports a pecking order within your own race. The uneducated and unskilled portion of Trump's base might not want to do that. The next thing you know, people from your own race will start treating you the same way you treat minorities.
Because that's the pecking order.
Simon Foston
SerranoToday 11:33 am JST
So those people who voted in a Democratic majority in the House aren't "real" Americans?
Chip Star
Yes, it was passed by congress and entitled the Affordable Care Act.
Yes, the funding bills that allocated money to DHS.
Two swings, two strikes. Cursory research would help you not achieve that third strike.
pointofview
Strangerland,
I think everyone is well convinced now that the Democrats are out to block everything Trump puts forward, they've continuosly proven that. Lefties still have poopy pants and are more hateful of his character than his actions. Obama spewed the same immigration rhetoric. You are just picking and choosing.
Simon Foston,
I'd consider them traders and liars (that there's no emergency) than not Americans.
Texas A&M Aggie
This is the first time in modern political history that a president held a ceremony for a veto signing; a well deserved veto on the liberal/RINO open borders initiative. Before yesterday, they were signed in seclusion and then announced by the media.
As an Angel Parent, I say bravo, Mr. President. Well done, sir.
MAGA/KAG!
bass4funk
Then if you go by that, the previous President should be at Pelican Bay, come on....
There was No justification to issue a DACA executive order, but he thought he needed to do it, most Americans didn’t approve of it, Congress absolutely did it and yet, he did.
I agree.
Texas A&M Aggie
Since "republican" Sen. Lisa Murkowski has such great concern for all the illegal aliens heading our way by siding with the democrats, President Trump should let her prove it via EO. Alaska to be would be an ideal place to send every incoming "asylum seeker" while they await their court dates. I am sure her constituents would welcome them all without complaint.
plasticmonkey
The usual rightwing argument. If you don't personally take asylum seekers into your home, you are a spineless hypocrite for pleading for humanitarian policies from government. Or if you have any kind of a home security system (especially a wall), you must by default support a concrete wall along the entire stretch of the U.S./Mexico border.
I'll give you a better example of spinelessness: Senator Thom Tillis (R) of North Carolina. Writing in the WaPo before the vote:
*--I am a member of the Senate, and I have grave concerns when our institution looks the other way at the expense of weakening Congress’s power. It is my responsibility to be a steward of the Article I branch, to preserve the separation of powers and to curb the kind of executive overreach that Congress has allowed to fester for the better part of the past century. I stood by that principle during the Obama administration, and I stand by it now.--*
At the last minute Tillis ended up voting against the resolution because he was afraid of being ousted by an even more rightwing primary challenger in 2020. So much for principle. MAGA!
Texas A&M Aggie
If you don't personally take asylum seekers into your home, you are a spineless hypocrite -- comment
So, what's wrong with relocating the "asylum seekers" to Alaska? Last time I checked it is part of the U.S. They get to live their dream of residing in a U.S. state -- whose republican senator voted for a democrat-driven open borders initiative -- until their cases are heard in a court of law. And the leftists get to pat themselves on the back for succeeding in letting illegal aliens with questionable backgrounds into our country. A win/win situation.
Serrano
Trump vetoes lawmakers' measure against border wall
It's happening, ladies and gentlemen.
The screaming and pulling of hair out has begun.
SuperLib
Yawn. And let's force anti-abortionists into raising other people's children. Oh, look how clever I am. Yawn.
bass4funk
Bingo!