Trump on the verge of defeat at the border emergency

President Donald Trump is about to reject his border emergency declaration from his emergency declaration at the border. It would be an embarrassing reprimand on the part of a congress opposed to its immigration program.

Senator Thom Tillis (RN.C.) said Monday night that he would join the Republican Sense. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine, along with 47 Democratic Senators, have blocked Trump's attempts to secure billions of dollars for his border wall after the lawmaker has been right him. Only one supporter of more than one GOP senator in favor of a resolution to block Trump's candidacy would send the measure to Trump's office and impose a veto.

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"The Conservatives have rightly screamed at the scandal when President Barack Obama used executive action to completely bypass Congress," said Tillis in an editorial released Monday night in the Washington Post. "There is no intellectual honesty in turning around and saying that there is an imaginary asterisk associated with the excessive dominance of the executive – it is acceptable to my party but not to your party. "

Nevertheless, the GOP is clearly reluctant to criticize Trump.

Many Republicans in the Senate say that, like Tillis, they despise Trump's decision to declare a national emergency to obtain additional funding for his wall. But most are not ready to say they will vote to prevent it from doing so.

Monday's talks with more than a dozen GOP Senators who publicly criticized Trump's unilateral maneuver or warned him not to deploy it confessed their intention to hold a crucial vote in the coming weeks in the Senate .

Many said they were undecided and were still studying Trump's decision to bypass Congress and earn billions more for the border fence. This suggests that the resolution to block it remains at the limit of the simple majority required for passage.

"It's useless, reckless and inconsistent with the Constitution," said Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), One of the most outspoken critics of Trump's emergency declaration. As to how he will vote, he said, "I will wait to see what the resolution says."

"I did not even read it, but I said:" I do not like what happened and I certainly do not like to use it. " Money from the army for this, "said Senator Florida Rubio, Marco Rubio.

Senator Mitt Romney of Utah said that he "was getting closer" to decision making, but that he could not disclose how he was leaning. Senator Cory Gardner of Colorado, a vulnerable incumbent in 2020, issued a statement stating that he "revised" the statement. He said Monday: "I've said everything I'm going to say about this."

Some Republicans are still waiting for the resolution to be passed by the Senate, but there was little enthusiasm to show up in a conflict with the president.

Although hesitant senators have reported no direct lobby from the President, Trump has made it clear on Twitter that he expects them to support him and fall short of the trap of the democrats. He also pledged to veto any congressional bill suspending his efforts.

Nevertheless, in an interview, Collins said that she expects more Republicans to join her.

"There will be others. I think, if you look at the comments of many of my colleagues, I really do not think I'm the only one, "said Collins. "I intend to vote yes as long as we have sent a clean resolution."

Murkowski said that in Alaska last week, she would also vote for the resolution if it is not changed by unnecessary points when it is passed by the House on Tuesday.

Perhaps even more remarkable is the fact that several harsh critics of Trump's unilateral plans have stated that they plan to support the president.

Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa said last month that an emergency declaration would create a "bad precedent". Senator John Cornyn of Texas called the measure "dangerous". The two men, however, said Monday they want to support the president and vote against blocking him.

"I did not want that to happen, because I think it's probably going to be in court. And I said it was not a practical solution, "said Cornyn. "I will probably vote against the disapproval resolution."

Still, Cornyn seemed resigned to passing it in front of the Senate: "All that is needed, that is four is not it? You can do the calculations as well as me. From there, he would go to the president's office, where Trump would probably veto and veto. At present, no one expects there to be enough GOP defections in the House or Senate to provide two-thirds of the votes needed to override the President's veto.

However, the fight is still in check as Republicans wonder if they want to be consistent in the decision of the leadership they have decried during the Obama presidency or attack a president who considers party loyalty as a imperative. For some, like Tillis, Collins and Gardner, being independent of Trump could be helpful for their re-election campaigns in the Blue States. And Alexander retires, giving him more voting space without worrying about the political consequences.

But for so many other Republicans, any vote will be fraught with political pitfalls.

The leader of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Said it should not be difficult for the Senate to spark a broad bipartisan rejection of Trump's actions.

"We have already met before in a bipartisan way – there is one that calls for the rejection by a bipartite party of an excess of power, that's all," he said. on Monday.

Republicans will have less than three weeks to decide. Once the House adopts the resolution, it will be referred to the Senate Armed Services Committee, although it can not be blocked in committee to avoid a vote on the floor. Republicans believe that the resolution can also be changed, although parliamentary restrictions apply to this.

"We are currently checking with the parliamentarian if this can be amended," said Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.). "There are all kinds of gray areas."

There is also a lot of uncertainty in the count of the GOP whip.

Johnson, Romney, Gardner, Rubio and GOP Sense. Roy Blunt of Missouri, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, Pat Roberts of Kansas, Jerry Moran of Kansas and Mike Lee of Utah were among those who still had not said how they would vote. And there are signs that the whipping operation of the administration is rising.

On Tuesday, Vice President Mike Pence will attend the Senate's GOP Weekly Breakfast, and the President's Emergency Statement will occupy a prominent place among the Republicans in the room.