The Senate rejected Trump's emergency declaration

The US Senate, by a majority of the ruling party, today rejected the declaration of national emergency declared by President Donald Trump in order to finance the wall on the border with Mexico, two weeks later. that the House of Representatives did the same.

A few minutes after the vote in the Senate, Trump vetoed the congressional resolution against his national urgency to fund the wall on the border with Mexico.

The National Emergency Law gives presidents a lot of leeway to declare an emergency situation. Congress can vote to block a declaration, but the two-thirds majorities required to defeat the presidential veto prevent legislators from winning.

"VETO!" Was the brief announcement that Trump posted on his Twitter account shortly after the Senate approval, two weeks after the lower house did the same, the resolution against him.

It's the first presidential vet he's been using since arriving at the White House in January 2017.

The resolution of the Senate is all the more remarkable that it counts on a republican majority, the party of Trump, reasoning that it supposes a hard blow to its authority.

With the approval of the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives of the same resolution last month, the Senate vote pbades it on to Trump.

He has not shown reluctance to issue his first veto to promote his campaign's call for "Building the Wall", and it seems that Congress will not have the two-thirds majorities needed to l & # 39; cancel.

"I'm going to veto it, it will not be canceled," Trump told reporters at the Oval Office. "It's a security vote at the border," the EFE news agency reported.

The roll call took place just one day after the Senate took a step in vetoing Trump on another issue, voting to end US support for the coalition war led by the US government. Saudi Arabia in Yemen. .