Trump Couldn’t Be Bothered to Stop the Senate
Republicans’ rebuke of his national emergency shows how uninterested the president is in executing his own agenda.
Even with his signature policy proposal at stake, even with his own party pushing back more than ever before, even with the first veto of his presidency on the table, President Donald Trump just couldn’t be bothered to try to persuade Congress to back him.
The result was a 59–41 vote to block his declaration of a national emergency to build a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico. It’s the biggest rebellion among Republican senators against the president, with 12 Republicans joining every Democrat to halt the declaration, and it comes one day—a vote to defund the Saudi war in Yemen, which drew seven Republicans.
