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UH OH: Rand Paul Says 10 Republicans to Vote Against Trump's Nat'l Border Emergency

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Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) is just one.

But there will be at least nine other Republican Senators to vote against President Trump’s national emergency at the southern border.

Here are the details…

From The Hill:

Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) said Monday that “at least” ten of his fellow GOP senators are prepared to vote for a resolution blocking President Trump’s emergency declaration at the southern border.

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“By my count, I’ve had at least 10 people coming up to me saying they will vote to disapprove on this,” Pauls told reporters, referring to GOP colleagues.

The comments came just days after Paul became the fourth GOP senator to announce he’d vote against Trump’s emergency declaration to fund a border wall. Paul’s announcement clinched a bipartisan majority in favor of blocking Trump’s declaration.

President Trump just can’t win.

Not with Democrats.

Not with many members of his own party, even.

Now, Tennessee Republican Senator Lamar Alexander is the latest to come out against 45’s national emergency declaration at the southern border.

From Politico:

Senate Republicans are offering a choice to President Donald Trump: Withdraw your national emergency declaration at the border or face a potential rebellion from the GOP.

The message was delivered clearly on Thursday by Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), part of an effort by senior Republicans to avoid a direct confrontation with Trump on the Senate floor.

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In a much-anticipated floor speech, the retiring senator declined to state whether he will become the deciding vote to block the president’s maneuver. But he signaled broad opposition to the emergency declaration and sought to convince Trump that he has other ways to collect $5.7 billion for the border wall — the precise amount of money he demanded during the government shutdown fight.

Alexander noted, “He’s got sufficient funding without a national emergency, he can build a wall and avoid a dangerous precedent. That would change the voting situation if he we were to agree to do that.

There are some things you just don’t say. Most of those things are lies.

Democrat Senator Jeff Merkley (OR) doesn’t understand.

According to Jeff, the Trump administration is “deliberately” hurting migrant children because it’s “part of political strategy.”

Merkley: “And we’re told that number is now 15,000 children. And think of that, 15,000 children in child prisons, Trump administration child prisons across America. And they are planning to add a couple more.

And so, this is — this system of locking children up behind the barbed wire…don’t call them anything other than child prisons or internment camps. That’s what’s going on here. And we’re told that there are children who have been here three, four, five, even six months long. And the trauma is being inflicted as part of a political strategy, to hurt children deliberately as part of a political strategy.

A seven-year-old girl died at the southern border. She and her family were trying to sneak into the states.

The mainstream media has lambasted President Trump and his administration for her death.

https://twitter.com/jacobsoboroff/status/1073706103882436608?%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1073706103882436608&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftherightscoop.com%2Fno-ice-is-not-to-blame-for-tragic-death-of-7-year-old-guatemalan-girl-and-the-media-is-lying-about-it%2F

Even Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer (NY) joined in, blaming border patrol agents for the death before the facts came out.

The MSM is not mentioning, though, that the girl hadn’t eaten or drank for days.

What’s more is the girl’s father says border patrol could NOT have done a better job.

Talk about a narrative buster.

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John Salvatore has been a Writer and Editor of multiple political blogs since early 2015. He earned his Master’s degree in Public Administration upon completion of a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science. A diehard Los Angeles Dodgers fan, John can be reached at [email protected].




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