Senate votes to block Trump’s emergency declaration on border wall

WASHINGTON — In a stunning rebuke, the Republican-controlled Senate has voted to terminate President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border.

The Senate voted 59-41 for a resolution to halt Trump’s emergency order. Trump has promised to veto it, and it is unlikely that Congress will have the votes to override him.

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Yet the vote represents a remarkable break between Trump and Senate Republicans. It’s the first time Congress has used its power to reject a presidential emergency order.

Trump wants to use his declaration to steer $3.6 billion more to border barriers than lawmakers approved. He had warned Republicans to stick with him on the vote. He said doing otherwise would be siding with Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. But several Republicans defied that warning.

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ISS mission blasts off from Baikonur Cosmodrome (WATCH LIVE)

Published time: 14 Mar, 2019 19:09

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A Soyuz MS-12 rocket takes off from the Baikonur cosmodrome carrying a Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin and two US astronauts, Christina Hammock Koch and Nick Hague to the International Space Station.

It is the second manned space mission since the botched October 2018 launch when one of the first stage boosters on a rocket failed around two minutes after the start and the crew were forced to make an emergency landing.