Republican Lisa Murkowski Will Support Bill to Undo Trump Emergency Declaration
The House will vote Tuesday on a resolution to overturn President Donald Trump‘s emergency declaration on the border, under which he can obtain funds without congressional approval. If it passes the House, which it is likely to do, it will go to the Senate where the vote has been less certain.
A short time ago, MSNBC caught up with Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), who said that she opposes the declaration. Fox News independently confirmed with Murkowski’s office that she will vote for the bill and against Trump.
Murkowski joins fellow Senate Republicans Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Susan Collins of Maine, who already declared their intent to support the legislation.
On MSNBC, Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming, also a Republican, reacted to the clip, and told anchor Andrea Mitchell that it could be enough for the bill to get to Trump’s desk. He pointed out that Trump is obviously going to veto, something the bill’s sponsor Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) also noted.
“Well, the Senate, there’s now 53 Republicans, 47 Democrats,” said Barrasso. “I think that Senator murkowski, maybe senator Collins, I think Senator Tillis had an op-ed in The Washington Post to say why he was voting that way.”
“It’s certainly possible, when we vote on this over the next two weeks on it,” Barrasso said of the possibility it will pass the Senate.
Rep. Castro, for his part, is concerned there won’t be enough Republican votes to override a veto should it come to that point.
Watch the clip above, courtesy of MSNBC.
[Featured image via screengrab]
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