Resolution to block attempt to secure funding for wall sets up a fight that will test Republican support for president’s controversial move

ed note–Before we jump into the meat of the matter, please take a good, long, considerate look at the pic above featuring a very happy Netanyahu staring fondly at Pelosi.

Now, in the 40+ years since the creation of the legal provision by which the US President may declare a national emergency (and which in fact has taken place with every single administration since this provision was created) the number of times that Congress has stepped in and stopped (or attempted to stop) its use and implementation is relegated to one time–now.

The Democrats do not care about a border wall. If it were a liberal administration in power and there were an influx of devout Catholics entering the country illegally for the purposes of affecting the political demographics in the US on issues such as abortion, gay marriage and all the other perverse sacramentals that are part of the Bolshevik left, then that border wall would need to go up INMEDIATAMENTE as they say south of the border and even if it meant bankrupting the country.

What is at stake here is Trump winning this hand of political poker that will see his political winnings turn into a giant mound of political currency with which he can then raise the stakes in the next hand against other players seated at the table, and of those, the most important being Israel and the wall that Trump intends to create in the region via his ‘ultimate peace deal’, and the Jews know this to be the case which is why they are moving heaven, hell and everything in between to deny Trump winning this hand.

Times of Israel

House Democrats on Friday introduced a resolution to block the national emergency declaration that President Donald Trump issued to fund his long-sought wall along the US-Mexico border.

The move sets up a fight that could result in Trump’s first veto. It starts the clock on a constitutional clash between Trump and Democrats and sets up a vote by the full House as soon as next week.

The Democratic-controlled House is sure to pass the measure, and the GOP-run Senate may adopt it as well despite Trump’s opposition.

Any Trump veto would likely be sustained, but the upcoming battle will test Republican support for Trump’s move, which even some of his allies view as a stretch — and a slap at lawmakers’ control over the power of the federal purse.

A staff aide introduced the measure during a short pro forma session of the House in which Rep. Don Beyer presided over an almost empty chamber.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has promised that her chamber will “move swiftly” to pass the measure, predicting in a letter to colleagues that “the resolution will be referred to the Senate and then sent to the President’s desk.”

Should the House and the Senate initially approve the measure, Congress seems unlikely to muster the two-thirds majorities in each chamber that would be needed later to override a certain Trump veto.

The measure to block Trump’s edict will be closely watched in the Senate, where Republican moderates such as Susan Collins and Lamar Alexander have signaled they would back it. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is only a reluctant supporter of Trump on the topic.

The battle is over an emergency declaration Trump has issued to access billions of dollars beyond what Congress has authorized to start erecting border barriers. Building the wall was the most visible trademark of Trump’s presidential campaign.

Congress last week approved a vast spending bill providing nearly $1.4 billion to build 55 miles of border barriers in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley while preventing a renewed government shutdown. That measure represented a rejection of Trump’s demand for $5.7 billion to construct more than 200 miles.

Besides signing the bill, Trump also declared a national emergency and used other authorities that he says give him access to an additional $6.6 billion for wall building. That money would be transferred from a federal asset forfeiture fund, Defense Department anti-drug efforts and a military construction fund. Federal officials have yet to identify which projects would be affected.

Democratic Rep. Joaquin Castro is the resolution’s sponsor and has already garnered support from a majority of the Democratic-controlled House as co-sponsors.

Castro’s measure says Trump’s emergency declaration “is hereby terminated.” Castro chairs the 38-member Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

Pelosi wrote that the Republican president’s “decision to go outside the bounds of the law to try to get what he failed to achieve in the constitutional legislative process violates the Constitution and must be terminated.”