Trump Signs First Ever Veto Upholding Border Emergency Declaration

"Today I am vetoing this resolution. Congress has the freedom to pass this resolution and I have the duty to veto it," said Trump from the oval office, sourrounded by law enforcement and 'angel moms.' During the Oval Office ceremony, Trump said that if the "dangerous" and "reckless" resolution became law, it would put American lives at risk.

The bill will next move to the House for a vote on March 26 in an attempt to override Trump's veto - however leaders lack the 2/3 support of the chamber required to overcome the veto.

For those keeping track of presidential vetoes at home: Bill Clinton 36

George W. Bush 12

Barack Obama 12

Donald Trump 1

Following President Trump's vow to veto the Republican-led Senate vote to block his emergency declaration to fund his long-promised southern border wall, Trump will sit down with "angel moms" to override the Senate. Of note, the Senate does not have the votes to override Trump's veto - his first since becoming President. That said, Thursday's vote serves as a rebuke of the president by his own party over border security. Shortly after the Senate voted 59-41 to overturn Trump's February 15 national emergency which would allow him to allocate up to $8 billion towards the wall, Trump tweeted: "VETO!" "It’s pure and simple: It’s a vote for border security; it’s a vote for no crime," Trump told reporters prior to the Senate vote - which he called "a vote for Nancy Pelosi, Crime, and the Open Border Democrats!" in a Thursday morning tweet.

Trump is also likely to address Thursday's mass shootings in New Zealand in which several individuals attacked two mosques, killing 49 people. One gunman penned a lengthy manifesto in which he praised President Trump as "a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose."

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-15/watch-live-trump-vetoes-congressional-bill-overturn-border-national-emergency

Donald Trump Updates Barack Obama Emergency Powers Executive Order

President Donald Trump announced an executive order on Friday to update a previous executive order released by former President Obama in 2011.

Trump’s executive order reminds Americans that he is not the first president to address problems at the border using an Executive Order. In 2011, Obama cited his Constitutional powers allowing him to invoke the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, 50 U.S.C. 1701, and the National Emergencies Act, 50 U.S.C. 1601.

Trump referenced Obama’s order during his February press conference announcing his decision to declare a national emergency:

By signing the national emergency, something signed many times by other presidents, many, many times—President Obama, in fact—we may be using one of the national emergencies that he signed having to do with cartels, criminal cartels. It’s a very good emergency that he signed. And we’re going to use parts of it on our dealings on cartels. So that would be a second national emergency. But in that case it’s already in place. And what we really want to do is simple. It’s not like it is complicated. It’s very simple.

At the time, Obama released Executive Order 13581 to help fight Drug cartels — including the Mexican Los Zetas cartel, as well as violent groups in Eastern Europe, Japan, and Italy. Trump’s new executive order toughens Obama’s order by updating the definition of a “significant transnational criminal organization” Obama’s order branded any group of persons that “engages in an ongoing pattern of serious criminal activity involving the jurisdictions of at least two foreign states,” allowing the United States to block property of transnational criminal organizations. Trump updated the definition to apply to a group, “involving the jurisdictions of at least two foreign states, or one foreign state and the United States.”

Trump proposed further actions against the Mexican cartels in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News — even describing them as terrorist organizations. “It’s psychological, but it’s also economic,” Trump said. “As terrorists — as terrorist organizations, the answer is yes. They are.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/15/donald-trump-updates-barack-obama-emergency-powers-executive-order/

Executive Order 13581–Blocking Property of Transnational Criminal Organizations

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/07/25/executive-order-13581-blocking-property-transnational-criminal-organizat