The US House of Representatives was poised to vote to terminate President DonaldTrump’s proclaimed national emergency at the US-Mexico border.
The US House of Representatives was poised to vote to terminate President Donald Trump’s proclaimed national emergency at the US-Mexico border. Picture: ReutersWashington - The US House of Representatives was poised on Tuesday to vote to terminate President Donald Trump’s proclaimed national emergency at the US-Mexico border, in what would be another stinging rejection of his proposed border wall.
He originally promised that Mexico would pay for it, but after Mexico refused, he asked US taxpayers to foot the bill for a project Democrats say is unneeded and will not be effective. In his first two years in office, Trump's Republicans controlled both chambers of Congress, which under the US Constitution holds the national purse strings, but lawmakers failed to provide the funding Trump wanted for his border barrier.
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