These Senate Republicans have completely turned on the president.
Twelve Republican senators voted Thursday to rebuke President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the southern border in a major embarrassment to the White House.
The senators joined their Democratic colleagues in passing a resolution, which notes official congressional disapproval of Trump’s declaration of a national emergency. The national emergency declaration is paired with a number of executive actions designed to make approximately $8 billion of funding available to begin construction on a wall along the southern border.
The senators’ main concern centered on the idea that Trump is circumventing Congress’s enumerated power of the purse to appropriate funds and use them as he pleases. Nearly all have noted that future Democratic presidents would exploit Trump’s action and declare their own national emergencies to fulfill campaign promises.
They included Sens. Marco Rubio, Rob Portman, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Pat Toomey, Roy Blunt, Lamar Alexander, Mitt Romney, Rand Paul, Jerry Moran, Mike Lee, and Roger Wicker.
Forty-one Republican senators stood by the Trump administration, including Sen. Thom Tillis, who previously had declared in a Washington Post op-ed that he could not support Trump on the declaration of a national emergency.
Trump made clear ahead of the vote and after the vote that he would issue a swift veto. The veto will likely put the matter to rest as neither chamber of Congress appears to have the necessary two-thirds majority to overturn Trump’s veto.
Some Senate Republicans and White House aides sought to stop the embarrassing defeat by attempting to create an alternative resolution that would restrict the president’s future use of executive power. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi quickly shot down the resolution, however, and Trump himself did not appear to endorse it Wednesday.
Src: Daily Caller
WE WILL NOT FORGET WHO PROTECTS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND WHO DOESN’T!
Totally agree and vote to re-elect Trump in 2020 so he can continue to MAGA and drain the swamp of these corrupt and treasonous politicians.
You have that right, Joan. They don’t care about the safety of the American people, the ones who pay their salary. They can pound sand and work at McDonald’s for all I care.
and the next time the “Republican Senate Committee” calls me to ask for money, I am going to tell them that because these 12 RHINOS did not support Trump, and since I have no way of knowing who the Republican Senate Committee is giving my money to. They will not get a dime from me. I will support specific Republicans that support our President and actively campaign against those that do not. Period/full stop/end of story…Hear that Rubio, Paul, Portman, The dingbat from Alaska, and Collins you hypocrite!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our family made that decision 45 years ago. We only give to proven Conservatives. There is not a dime worth of difference between a Liberal or Moderate Republican to a Liberal or Moderate Democrat! They both destroy America!
Agree I stopped giving a long time ago to the GOP
Do the same thing to them
These republicans r traitors in the first order and the. People that put them there will not forget this. R they s bloody stupid that they don’t want to protect us. It’s bad enough that my two senators voted against it and I’ll campaign against patty Murray when she runs next, apparently she doesn’t care whether Americans live die
We won’t forget. It’s about your power. You’re part of the Swamp and think you’re invulnerable! Remember Sessions? Traitor Swamper. Part of the attempt to pull a coupe on the President. Other so called conservative Republicans. What’s more important? The border security or your BELIEF; it was too much power. It was only one use.! Obama used it and you cried like a mouse.
Absolutely we won’t forget! If the biased HUFF POST would ever once tell the real truth & not their own BIASED opinions then, maybe just once the brainwashed people could see what the truth really is!!! It is NOT THROWING TRUMP UNDER THE BUS….IT’S MOST OF AMERICA!!! We know who they are!!!
Lets get rid of these SOBs – not good for America – more important to them to bring in people we will have financially support – then to stand by our President.
they can all GTH
No we won’t! Not One of them should ever think of running for POTUS! We have a long memory, and they are “Toast!”
In other words there’s no justification for the Democrats to take it to court, sounds to me like it’s political and the Democrats just need to negotiate with the Republicans
No judge should interfere with congressional negotiations
This next election let us throw them under the wheels of the bus.
Those 12 scumbag traitor republicans need to be constantly reminded when seen out in public like restaurants where ever seen just how betrayed us real loyal republicans treat traitors.
Yes they are want to be democrats anyway. What a stupid thing to do to go against your own party. They are a disgrace.
Veto, President Trump!!
Throw them under the buss and make sure the wheels get them.
The 12 anti-Trump traitors need to have the illegal immigrants in their neighborhoods. Remember when that woman turned loose some illegal immigrants in Nancy Pelosi’s front yard. Pelosi called the Police. Nancy Pelosi and the anti-Trump traitors want to dump the illegal immigrants in middle class neighborhoods!
They should also be made to personally finance them as if they are part of there immediate family -not the USA govern
Ent. I believe they will vote differently if that were the case.
RINOS one and all. I think they should all be voted out of office. This anti Trump insanity is just that. They’re willing to damage this country to go against the president. The purple have spoken. Listen up RINOS!
YOU ARE ALL OUT !!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALONG WITH YOUR COMMIE FRIENDS, GO TO HELL WITH YOUR COMMIE FRIENDS !!! YOU ALL NEED TO BE CONVICTED FOR TREASON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Never ceases to amaze me how corrup the DNC and some of the GOP members are. All those Senators that didn’t listen to the requests from the border patrol should be dismissed. It is a national emergency we can’t process all of them at the same time
WHATS GOING ON… EVERY TIME I ATTEMPT TO REPLY…. NO MESSAGE?
AM I BEING CENSORED???
I agree — you are not alone. They’re not posting my comment either. Don’t know why.
I’m surprised Tillis didn’t vote against our President. I’m not surprised about Romney, Rubio, and a few of the others. I didn’t expect Mike Lee to vote against him and I wish Rand Paul hadn’t. Obama abused this order and, while I know other Presidents could use it to do worse, they can’t tie his hands like Paul Ryan did for two years. Ryan and Romney are so sleazy and arrogant – I’m so glad they didn’t get elected. I voted for them as the lesser of two evils, but I voted for Trump whole-heartedly. It’s time for these establishment anti-Americans to leave. We know who they are now and we want no part of them. Ever again! Trump 2020.
Why would anyone not see the real need to secure our borders from Illegal entry, sex and drug trafficing, radical muslims or better terrorists. These 12 senators or fake Republicans have joined the ranks of the radical Demonrats. We patriots and true or legal Americans know this would not have happened if the citizens would have voted. Sounds like we have a bunch or traitors in our govt. that have sold out their country and their souls. I am looking forward to seeing our current POTUS veto this resolution as it will strengthen our country and hopefully put people back in govt. positions that give a damn about our citizens and country. Please Vote for President Trump in 2020 so he can continue draining the swamp and make America greater. Sad day for patriots and our country but as the old saying goes things will work out for the best.
These politicians are more concerned about getting President Trump out of office than listening to the people who elected them. There is an emergency at hand. Drugs, MS13, Disease, a drain on the US social programs,(Americans can’t get help because illegals are taking them) .Why should Americans be put in poverty so wealthy politicians can promote themselves. TRUE AMERICANS STAND UP AND BACK OUR PRESIDENT.
I guess the Republicans will be remembered next election. Guess they are not concerned about protecting the American people.
They were carefully chosen by the enemies of America & our President who are behind this travesty, based on the fact that they all have some kind of Achille’s heel, be it a bribe or dirty laundry of some sort–never doubt that.
These 12 are proof they are true RINSO’S! Remember them when we vote next!
People, Remember these in 12 azzholes! Everytime you have a chance, stick it their butts. These people need to change the designstions behind their names as treasonist azzholes. Vote them OUT as soon as possible! You can’t depend on any of them. These are the damned no good RINO’S…..
I hope what goes around comes around for these terrible twelve traitors.
Please…DO NOT FORGET THESE 12 NAMES…VOTE AGAINST THEM EVERYTIME POSSIBLE! THESE ARE THE TURNCOATS THAT SCREW US ALL EVERYTIME THERE’S AN IMPORTANT VOTE…
Shameful! These 12 RINOs are sleeping with the enemy and knowingly turn their backs on the pleas of Middle America. I will not be surprised if they are also yielding to their Liberal donors who want cheap labor from the illegal aliens. Build the damned wall once and for all.
I’m ashamed of Rand Paul from KY. As a Kentuckian ,I won’t forget,An will REMIND people every day how he did Stand with fellow Republicans
only Rhino senators or a piece of s*** and a disgrace to their country and the American people they all took a oath when they took office I swore to uphold the Constitution it did not upholding the Constitution they should be discharged from office immediately
The democrats are absolutely wrong on everything and trying to turn our country communist at the very least a combo of socialist/communist. But at the very least they stick together. They know it’s wrong,not what the people want, nothing matters, they can be as crazy as a bedbug and still they will stick together and vote together,knowing it’s wrong. Until republicans learn to stick together and not be lukewarm, they will never,NEVER, win nor will they ever take pur country back in the direction it needs to go. The direction of morals,what the people want,which is what they were voted in for,away from the underhandedness and the corruption,much much too much to list here. Please come together in solidarity.I am crying as I type this. Our country has no morals anymore because the dim witted, crazy democrats stick together no matter what and the republicans join the half the time instead of sticking together.I am so disappointed and sad I don’t know what to do. The only person in Washington,DC that is doing what our founding fathers would do is OUR President. In the beginning, a job in the house,Senate, or government period was a non paid job to keep out the corruption. You served because you wanted to make the country better not because you wanted to get rich. You truly wanted the people of this glorious country to prosper, not your own greed. And it wasn’t about giving out freebies, it was about voting in policies that would truly help the lives of everyday people.I am sure what I say means nothing to most of you, if any, but the only one of you willing to take the abuse and truly look out for we the people, for no benefit or pay is the President. And he takes more abuse,has no support, and he still gets up and works long hard days for no pay to help the average jo blow,and for no thanks even. When the govt shut down, he was still there, working, not off in Hawaii or playing golf.He is trying to clean out the corruption and get back to the morals our founders intended for our country. I voted Republican so he might have some help,. It is so sad to me I still can’t stop crying. It’s as if he is the only one who cares. The democrats know they can push you around and that you don’t stand together so you make it easy for them to get these ridiculous bills passed in the supposed act of working together. You need to call it what it is, giving the DEMS their communist govt. You truly don’t think this horde of infectious, diseased, drug running, child abducting,raping,criminals (Just the act of crossing the border illegally is a crime,depleting welfare while our vets are homeless and people like me who do not have a place on their body that dosent have cancer can’t even get help after paying into the system since I was 14, is a state of emergency? REALLY? I worked for the same company almost 40 years, when I told them I had cancer they terminated me 2 days later. But there is no help for me, we have to support the rest of the world and all the criminals (don’t forget, it is illegal to cross the border,it is a crime!) Not to mention even worse crimes they commit. Because they rushed the border or crossed where there was no fence,which makes them automatically eligible for assistance of all kinds. How long before our country can’t pick up the tab anymore. Until we can support ALL AMERICANS we should take in NO immigrants, legal or otherwise. Drones and people help somewhat but not like a fence. We all know this is a state of emergency. What are you scared of, the demon-crats? They stick together, they don’t need you. They need you to keep doing what you’re doing. Not sticking together and not doing what you know is the right thing for the country or we the people. We stopped mattering a long time ago.This will probably not do anything but fall on deaf ears but I hope not. Look in your heart if you still have one and start doing the right thing for the people.GOD BLESS!
President Trump should take all the Congress members who voted against the Emergency declaration, and the 12 RINO’s who are supposed to be protecting the right of their constituents…DOWN TO THE SOUTHERN BORDER…. AND SHOW THEM EXACTLY WHATS GOING ON.
Its about time the Left gets on board….. to SEE whats going on DOWN SOUTH.
Whats it going to take to get these Washington DC Idiots in line to PROTECT OUR COUNTRY?
In my 64 years, I have NEVER SEEN OBSTRUTIONISM LIKE WE ALL SEE NOW.
This IS AN EMERGENCY
A Country is not a country….WITHOUT BORDERS.
I would have a very hard time supporting any of the 12 that voted against the President ~!!~!! Republicans just can’t help but help the democrats!!! pathetic !!!
Republicans have no character and certainly will not support the POTUS.
Republicans are not team players.
Rubio, turn against FL, maybe he’s ready to pic up retired $, Do NOTHING, all talk
Shame on them. Do they serve the people of the USA. What happens when all of the illegal aliens arrive
In the US. Who pays for them then. We do. The taxpayers. It’s cheaper to pay for the wall and let them come legally. Stand up Republicans for what is right for the citizens of the U S
I am so over whelmed by what most of you are saying.
Beyond my comprehension.
What news do you watch?
Trump is one of the stupidest person I have ever heard when speaking .
He is corrupt, should be in jail, sides with dictators etc etc etc
Watch World News
Watch what everyone around him is in trouble.
I just thought smart intelligent folks would see that he is a detriment to our country but then again I remembered all those intelligent people that followed jimmy jones to their death along with their innocent children.
IT’S ABOUT TIME SOMEONE USED SOME COMMON SENSE. TRUMP NEEDS TO BE STOPPED.
HE DOES NOT CARE ABOUT OUR COUNTRY, HE ONLY CARES ABOUT HIMSELF.
SPENDING ALL OF THAT MONEY ON THE BORDER WHEN IT IS NOT 100% FOOL PROOF.
THAT MONEY SHOULD BE USED FOR MORE IMPORTANT THINGS, LIKE FEEDING ”OUR” HUNGRY.
I WILL VOTE FOR THESE REPUBLICANS , BECAUSE THEY ARE PUTTING OUR COUNTRY ”FIRST”.
MOST OF THEM ARE TO AFRAID TO STAND UP AGAINST TRUMP BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO BACK BONE
A ND THEY DON’T WANT TO LOSE MONEY AND ALL OF THE ”PERKS” THAT ARE GIVEN TO THEM..
DO WHAT IS RIGHT FOR OUR COUNTRY. COMMON SENSE NEEDS TO BE USED!!!
I’m willing to bet people like you don’t live in border states where these illegals are caught and released. Visit NM, southern California, southern Texas and observe the USA turning into a third world country. I don’t maintain that these illegals are criminals, but they’re causing our economy to crumble – getting benefits for food, health care, subsidized housing, children, being paid under the table, overwhelming our emergency rooms, etc., but they have no vested interest in actually becoming Americans. They don’t show up in droves for free English classes, higher education, or make efforts to assimilate. For the immigrants who built this country, it was sink or swim. No handouts. We’re to busy feeding these illegals to possibly feed “our” hungry. The statement “SPENDING ALL OF THAT MONEY ON THE BORDER WHEN IT IS NOT 100% FOOL PROOF” is ignorant. What is 100% foolproof? If the wall won’t stop 100%, it will certainly slow the flow.
I support Trump…………I believe in secure borders. So sick of illegals. I believe in immigration because that is how this country was founded…………..but they have to do it legally!!!!! Love my president!!!!
Cheaper by the dozen! And this dozen has stabbed all Republicans in the back and we will NOt forget! Filth is the kindest word that I can think to call these traitors!
And so the twelve (12) republicansw turncoats, completely break their LOYALTY to our GREAT PRESIDENT TRUMP and the entire REPUBLICAN PARTY AS A WHOLE AND WHERE THEIR LOYALTY TO THE OPPOSING DEMOC-RATS OBSTRUCTIONIST START TO BEGIN….THEY CAN GO TO HELL MR. PRESIDENT! WE LOVE YOU!… YOU STILL HAVE FOR 4 MORE YEARS TO COME.
We need to deport the people fighting against the wall
Thoroughly disgusted with the swamp which includes the 12 republican senators. We need that wall to protect us crime wise as well as money wise. Even health wise. Thank goodness Trump is such a strong willed person or our country would be in bigger trouble. These very dumb liberal socialists do not realize the consequences of their thinking if put into action. I am 73 and was taught Civics in school as well as World History. They all need courses in these subjects as well as in our Constitution and Bill of Rights. And these new and old Congresswomen are a disgrace to our great nation! Long live Capitalism!
I keep emailing one of our Senators, who has begun to speak up against Trump, telling him that I have always voted for him but if he can’t support Trump, I will no longer support him !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! More of us need to do this to any of the 12 that we usually vote for, and don’t forget when you go to the poles. Vote in a different Republican.
I’m willing to bet that not one of these Traitors has been to the San Diego Border to see for themselves what is going on. . I live here and it is an Emergency. I suggest that they get their lazy Asses out of the chair and go to SD and see the problem first hand.
They are not true Republicans — they have been castrated by the left and now follow the anti-American Democrats. We will remember to vote them out of office.
Sens. Marco Rubio, Rob Portman, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Pat Toomey, Roy Blunt, Lamar Alexander, Mitt Romney, Rand Paul, Jerry Moran, Mike Lee, and Roger Wicker have all of the blood of the people that these illegal alien ha murdered on their hands. By voting with the Democrats to overrule President Trump’s executive order of the national emergency down on our southern border, they have dipped their hands in the blood of the innocent people that were murdered.
What did everyone, including Trump just wake up and realize there are RINO NEOCON TRAITORS in the party? They’ve been around for decades. Trump allegedly ran against them in 2016 and won. Since, he has supported a lot of them in their campaigning. They use Trump from fund raising. Today, they were fund raising using the WALL as the buzz word. WTF. All these ads to fight them now end with 1 item:Send in more money. LOL.
The rest I get, but Rand ? Rand isn’t an “Establishment” RINO, so WTF is he doing going along with them on this ? I can’t wrap my head around this one…..WTF was Rand thinking ???
These 12 Republicans that betrayed President Trump should make plans for a future line of employment because their future in Washington DC just went out the window them committing Political suicide.
These 12 Republicans that betrayed President Trump should make plans for a future line of employment because their future in Washington DC just went out the window them committing Political suicide.
Unfortunately none of this surprises me. There is very little difference between any of them. They have taken what was supposed to be a part-time job, and made a career of raising money for their re-election campaigns. They are supposed to be working for us. None of them want what’s best for the American people. None of them want change. Where else can you do nothing, have the best benefits, and give yourself a raise EVERY year. They have violated our trust. The Lord has a special place for each of them,
Rogelio
03/15/2019
The 12 Republican turncoats are disgrace to the Conservative Party. I ran out of Adjectives, Nouns and Verbs to define the make-ups of these 12 characters but you already have said them accurately.
Oh yes, they are the CROOKS who inhabit the SWAMP that took the decoy President Trump lowered down to uncover these traitors. Actually Tramp has already the necessary resources he needed to finish the Wall. Instead, he masterfully took the route of proclaiming State of Emergency to surface the crooks that are taking cover in the swamp. As the swamp dries let the crooks dehydrate with the swamp.
Now we know who to dodge in 2020. It’s our turn to throw them under the bus.
I hope that people remember this come election time for these turncoats. I certainly will and although it may not matter I certainly will NOT provide any more contributions to any cause they bring forward. If these jerks had got behind the president long ago all this controversy would have been gone and our southern border would have been marked as it should be. WE NEED THAT PROTECTION NOW !!!
I hope that people remember this come election time for these turncoats. I certainly will and although it may not matter I certainly will NOT provide any more contributions to any cause they bring forward. If these jerks had got behind the president long ago all this controversy would have been gone and our southern border would have been marked as it should be. WE NEED THAT PROTECTION NOW !!! And for Capitol Hill.org this IS NOT a duplicate comment.
I believe the 12 despicables should each personally adopt and personally pay for all the illegals upkeep for life and not look to the tax payers to support them. We don’t want them – build that wall.
Mitt the Twit, is looking to make trump look like he doesn’t know what he is doing. Just to make his self look good, so he can run for the job latter. I think the church put him in office, not people of the state of Utah. He is a Turncoat of the worst kind.
I would like to see the list of names the drug king pin named as being on there payroll that court blocked .
I certainly will record the names of these 12 pseudo-Republicans in my date book & remember them( out you guys ) on Election Day . We don’t need them . 👎👎
Remember this. When the next election comes. But remember to vote republican, also.
Trump is an embarrassment to the U.S. and the Western World. Another four years with Trump in power will cause the debt to skyrocket, and middle class Americans will continue to shift towards the poor end of the spectrum. He has no skills in international affairs, human resource management and macro economics. Trump supporters are slurping up his “make America great again”, just like Hitler did with the German people oin the 1920’s and 1930’s. The similarities between these two evil leaders is spine chilling.
Go President Trump in 2020
I hope you are saying GTH.
I am so ashamed of our so-called Senate. It is not about cutting the President’s powers. Can you imagine what a WWIII would be like, if the President was not permitted to deal with a threat of national emergencies. Mexico’s aim is to flood the country with illegals. Taking control of the U.S. Even in the days of Santa Ana, the aim was to create a Mexicana-U.S. Empire – run by Mexico. If you think corruption is bad now, wait until ALL these illegals are allowed to vote. We will have a crime, corruption and murder going through the roof as it now does in Mexico. What’s happening in Mexico is intentional, stirring up the population. Believe me, the only government we will have is one ruled by a Latin American majority socialist/communist country. Why don’t we say it like it is. The Conquistadors are back. There is no equality in socialism/communist. Democracy will be dead. Pelosi, Ocasio and the rest of the current Dems will not be re-elected when the majority of the population becomes illegals.
Murkowski stole her last election. And apparently, Rubio is showing his real colors now. Thank God he didn’t become our President. The U.S. has always been a haven, giving people the chance to better themselves. That will not be our future. Look at how Latin America treats its lower classes. That will be the future of the U.S. That will be the true Haves, and the rest of us the Have Nots.