Donald Trump called for loyalty to Republican senators for the emergency vote at the border

Donald Trump revealed this Monday its $ 8,600 million proposal to finance the border wall with Mexico and again asked loyalty to the Republican majority of the Senate for the vote on his emergency declaration at the border.

The Senate is expected to vote in the second half of this week on a democratic attempt to overturn Trump 's emergency declaration, which uses it. redirect government funds to build a wall on the US-Mexico border.

Four Republicans announced that they would break ranks and join Democrats block the presidential measure. Democrats are a minority in the Senate, but their efforts would be approved with the support of the four Republicans.

Democrats argue Trump has exceeded his authority by invoking special powers cancel congressional opposition to fund the construction of new border walls, and several Republicans expressed their discomfort with the president's decision.

But on Monday, Trump pressed them again for the second time in five days, tweet that Republicans "have a very easy vote this week" on border security and the wall.

"Democrats are 100% united" on this issue, he added. "Stay firm!"he asked his followers.

If the measure is approved, it will mean a general reprimand to the president by Congress, but this will only be of symbolic importance. Trump can respond with a veto – the first of his presidency – and continue to get funding for his wall.

The additional $ 8.6 billion allocated to the wall, contained in the ambitious draft budget for 2020 presented by the White House on Monday, significantly exceed the $ 5.7 billion requested by Trump for the same purpose this year.

According to what the Washington Post has published this weekend, in its budget for fiscal year 2020, Trump wants to allocate $ 5 billion from the budget of the Department of Homeland Security and $ 3.6 billion from the Pentagon.

These funds would be added to the emergency funding of $ 6.7 billion planned in accordance with the "national emergency" declaration announced on February 15, a procedure that allows him to pbad the Congress to release funds.

The last time Trump asked parliamentarians to approve funds for the border wall, for $ 5.7 billion, the fight with Congress ended with a "stop" or partial closure of the federal government of 35 days.

But the Democratic leaders of Congress immediately reiterated their opposition to funding a wall. "President Trump has caused damage to eight million Americans when he unwisely decided to shut down the government to get his expensive and inefficient wall, which, as promised, had to be paid for by Mexico," he said. reminded the American Democratic President. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosiand the leader of the democratic minority in the Senate, Chuck Schumer