{"id":399722,"date":"2019-03-16T07:49:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T06:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/senate-votes-to-terminate-national-emergency\/"},"modified":"2019-03-16T07:49:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T06:49:42","slug":"senate-votes-to-terminate-national-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/senate-votes-to-terminate-national-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Votes to Terminate National Emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Rights groups celebrated a \u201chistoric rebuke\u201d of an unconstitutional power grab Thursday after the Senate voted to terminate President Donald Trump\u2019s national emergency declaration by an overwhelming bipartisan margin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s vote is a major blow to President Donald Trump\u2019s autocratic ambitions,\u201d said Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen. \u201cThe American people don\u2019t want a racist border wall, and by overwhelming numbers they oppose Trump\u2019s emergency declaration. They rose up and made their voices clear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The final vote count was 59-41, with<span> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/frankthorp\/status\/1106266933828165633\">12 Republicans<\/a><span> <\/span>joining Democrats to pass the resolution of disapproval.<\/p>\n<div class=\"truth-post-content-high  inline-callout-container\" id=\"truth-872257984\">\n<div class=\"truth-post-content-high\" id=\"truth-2133423162\">\n<aside class=\" inline-callout inline-callout--subscribe inline-callout--dark\" id=\"truth-1662644106\">\n<h2>Stay in the loop<\/h2>\n<p>Never miss the news and analysis you care about.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: The GOP-controlled Senate just voted to overturn Trump\u2019s fake national emergency.<\/p>\n<p>This is a major rebuke of Trump\u2019s authoritarianism and disregard for the Constitution. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OZ77KP05n3\">pic.twitter.com\/OZ77KP05n3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Public_Citizen\/status\/1106267473031114752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 14, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump<span> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2019\/02\/15\/i-didnt-need-do-watch-little-moment-bizarre-speech-when-trump-admits-national\">declared a national emergency last month<\/a><span> <\/span>following a record 35-day government shutdown over his demand for $5 billion in border wall funding from Congress.<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s declaration was immediately met with widespread outrage and a<span> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2019\/02\/15\/calling-emergency-declaration-patently-illegal-power-grab-aclu-sues-trump\">torrent of legal challenges<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a joint statement, the Revoke Trump Emergency Coalition\u2014an alliance of more than a dozen progressive advocacy groups\u2014said Thursday\u2019s vote in the Senate was the product of \u201cgrassroots outcry from every corner of this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the beginning, his national emergency declaration was a racist attack on the very foundation of our democracy, and an assault on the principle of separation of powers,\u201d the coalition said. \u201cWe\u2019ll keep up the heat until Congress reins Trump in, and until every immigrant in our country is treated with dignity and fairness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The measure, which passed the House last month, will now head to Trump\u2019s desk. On Twitter, the president said he \u201clook[s] forward to vetoing\u201d the resolution.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I look forward&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/senate-votes-to-terminate-national-emergency\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rights groups celebrated a \u201chistoric rebuke\u201d of an unconstitutional power grab Thursday after the Senate voted to terminate President Donald Trump\u2019s national emergency declaration by an overwhelming bipartisan margin. \u201cToday\u2019s vote is a major blow to President Donald Trump\u2019s autocratic ambitions,\u201d said Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen. \u201cThe American people don\u2019t want a racist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-399722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}