{"id":1003831,"date":"2019-02-25T11:17:57","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T15:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1003831"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:09:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:09:26","slug":"opposition-to-trumps-fake-national-emergency-grows-among-republicans-national-security-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/opposition-to-trumps-fake-national-emergency-grows-among-republicans-national-security-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition To Trump\u2019s Fake National Emergency Grows Among Republicans & National Security Experts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nearly two dozen former Republican lawmakers urged their party to oppose Trump\u2019s emergency declaration, and a bipartisan group of 58 national security experts confirmed \u201cthere is no factual basis\u201d for Trump to declare an emergency to build his ineffective border wall. Democrats are holding Trump accountable and fighting to block his fake national emergency.<\/p>\n

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A bipartisan group of 58 former senior national security officials confirmed Trump\u2019s national emergency is fake.<\/p>\n

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Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cA bipartisan group of 58 former senior national security officials will issue a statement Monday saying that \u2018there is no factual basis\u2019 for President Trump\u2019s proclamation of a national emergency to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Nearly two dozen former Republican lawmakers urged Republicans in Congress to vote to block Trump\u2019s fake national emergency.<\/p>\n

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Politico<\/a>: \u201cNearly two dozen former Republican members of Congress have penned an open letter to GOP lawmakers, urging them to reject President Donald Trump\u2019s national emergency declaration to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border\u2026 They called on Republicans in Congress to \u2018exercise restraint to protect the constitutional model … and to keep it from being sacrificed on the altar of expediency\u2019 and ask them to \u2018pass a joint resolution terminating the emergency declared by the President.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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Democrats are holding Trump accountable and fighting back against his fake national emergency.<\/p>\n

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CNN<\/a>: \u201cHouse Democrats introduced a resolution Friday to block President Donald Trump’s effort to build a wall on the southern border through his emergency powers, setting up votes in Congress to rebuke the President’s proclamation, even though Trump has promised to veto the measure.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Nearly two dozen former Republican lawmakers urged their party to oppose Trump\u2019s emergency declaration, and a bipartisan group of 58 national security experts confirmed \u201cthere is no factual basis\u201d for Trump to declare an emergency to build his ineffective border wall. 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