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		</div><p>The US House of Representatives has voted to block President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration, a measure intended get him billions of extra dollars to build his border wall.</p>
<p>The House’s 245-182 vote to block Mr Trump’s national emergency declaration fell well below the two-thirds majority that would be needed to override his promised veto.</p>
<p>Top Republicans worked to keep defections as low as possible — 13 backed the Democrats’ resolution — underscoring their desire to avoid a tally suggesting that Mr Trump’s hold on politicians was weakening.</p>
<p>The vote now goes to the Republican-run Senate, where there were already enough defections to edge it to the cusp of passage.</p>
<p>Vice President Mike Pence used a lunch with Republican senators at the Capitol to try keeping them aboard, citing a dangerous crisis at the border, but there were no signs he would succeeded.</p>
<figure id="attachment_126808" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-126808" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/954C606C-349A-4113-A1E2-F3BEE642B2BC.jpeg"><img class="size-full wp-image-126808" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/954C606C-349A-4113-A1E2-F3BEE642B2BC.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-126808" class="wp-caption-text">Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speak to reporters after a closed-door meeting with Vice President Mike Pence</figcaption></figure>
<p>“I personally couldn’t handicap the outcome at this point,” said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who is planning a vote within the next three weeks.</p>
<p>He even said Republicans remained uncertain about the legality of Mr Trump’s move, telling reporters, “We’re in the process of weighing that.”</p>
<p>Senate passage would force Mr Trump’s first veto, which the House vote demonstrated that Congress would surely fail to overturn.</p>
<p>But the showdown was forcing Republicans to cast uncomfortable votes pitting their support for a president wildly popular with Republican voters against fears that his expansive use of emergency powers would invite future Democratic presidents to do likewise for their own pet policies.</p>
<p><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/F35615C3-3285-4DE2-A77E-45B2AF1788AB.jpeg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-126810" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/F35615C3-3285-4DE2-A77E-45B2AF1788AB.jpeg" alt="" width="1443" height="1007" /></a></p>
<p>House Republicans who joined all voting Democrats to support the Democratic resolution included moderates from competitive districts such as Fred Upton of Michigan and libertarian-leaning conservatives such as Thomas Massie from Kentucky.</p>
<p>The White House wrote to politicians formally threatening to veto the legislation.</p>
<figure id="attachment_126809" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-126809" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/BD146CB6-780B-4416-8159-9C887AE3E595.jpeg"><img class="size-full wp-image-126809" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/BD146CB6-780B-4416-8159-9C887AE3E595.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="394" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-126809" class="wp-caption-text">President Donald Trump issued the emergency declaration last week to fund his long-sought wall along the US-Mexico borders </figcaption></figure>
<p>The letter said blocking the emergency declaration would “undermine the administration’s ability to respond effectively to the ongoing crisis at the Southern Border”.</p>
<p>Republicans said Democrats were driven by politics and a desire to oppose Mr Trump at every turn, and said Mr Trump had clear authority to declare an emergency to protect the country.</p>
<p>They also defended the president’s claims of a security crisis along the boundary with Mexico, which he has said is ravaged by drug smugglers, human traffickers and immigrants trying to sneak into the US illegally.</p>
<p>“We are at war on the Southern border with the drug cartels,” said Representative Pete Olson.</p>
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<div>Democrats said the crisis is a fiction manufactured by Mr Trump to dance around Congress’ vote this month to provide less than 1.4 billion dollars (£1bn) for barrier construction. That was well below the 5.7 billion dollars (£4.3bn) Mr Trump demanded as he forced a record-setting 35-day federal shutdown.</div>
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<div>The president does not get to override Congress in a raucous temper tantrum over his inability to broker a deal” with politicians for more money, said Representative Hank Johnson</div>
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<p>Representative Joaquin Castro, sponsor of the one-sentence measure blocking the declaration, called Mr Trump’s move “constitutional vandalism”.</p>
<p>Mr Trump used a 1976 law to declare a national emergency and ordered the shift of 3.6 billion dollars (£2.7bn) from military construction projects to wall building.</p>
<p>Citing other powers, he intends to shift another 3.1 billion dollars (£2.3bn) from Defence Department anti-drug efforts and a fund that collects seized assets.</p>
<p>The money would be used to build steel barriers up to 30 ft tall and other barriers and for “law enforcement efforts”, said a White House statement.</p>
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