The wall with Mexico continues to slow down: MEPs have locked a Trump directive with which they obtained funding

The political struggle between Democratic legislators and Donald Trump's Republican government had on Tuesday one of its most complicated chapters. Opposition MPs locked in Congress the resolution signed by the US president to declare a state of national emergency. allowed him to raise funds for the construction of a wall on the border with Mexico.

The lower house approved the initiative by 245 votes in favor and 182 against. Voting was the key of a part of the Republicans. Thirteen members of this bank supported the Democratic project, which is now in the Senate. There, by the division of forces, the opposition must obtain four votes favorable to the government to support the idea, because they are in the minority.

If that does not happen, Trump can veto. In this case, he returns to Congress but, in this debate, the support of two-thirds of the two chambers would be necessary to materialize, which would be unlikely.

"We will not give any president, Democrat or Republican, a blank check to destroy the US Constitution," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, according to the newspaper. The Washington Post.

On the Republican side, the head of this space, Kevin McCarthy, said that "there is a national emergency on the southern border, Democrats said it did not exist. "

Trump signed a national emergency declaration in mid-January. This extraordinary step that allows US leaders to temporarily access a "special power" to cope with a crisis.

The tycoon's idea is to get $ 6.6 billion rebadigned from different items that previously had already been approved by Congress. This money would be added to the 1,375 given by the legislature build the wall.