In next week’s highly anticipated vote, senators must choose between bucking the president and facing the wrath of the party base, or backing the unpopular wall.
Senator John Cornyn walks through the U.S. Capitol rotunda on Tuesday. By Seung Min Kim and Seung Min Kim White House reporter Email Bio Follow Erica Werner Erica Werner Congressional reporter focusing on economic policy Email Bio Follow March 5 at 7:44 PM The Trump administration privately appealed to Republican senators on Tuesday to stand with President Trump on his controversial wall, painting a picture of a U.S.
“There are some people that think any time you take exception to the position the president may have taken, you’re being disloyal. I don’t believe that,” Tillis said in an interview Tuesday. “I’ve had a great discussion with the White House in the past week or so. They understand that I know there’s a crisis at the border.
“If I voted to disapprove it, it would basically say I am not for what the president is trying to accomplish at the border — which I am for,” said Sen. John Cornyn , a former member of leadership who is up for reelection next year. He initially urged Trump against declaring a national emergency but has since said he would vote against the disapproval measure because the president has the authority to act.
Republican leaders have largely been hands off as individual senators weigh their choices. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has mostly focused on providing senators the information they need in advance of the vote, rather than twisting arms. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks to the media at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday. But Trump’s border wall — and his chosen method to tap money for it — remains broadly unpopular in public polling.
Sen. Cory Gardner , who is up for reelection next year in a state that Hillary Clinton won in 2016, declined on Tuesday to say how he would vote on the disapproval resolution. He stressed his decision would be independent of political considerations: “I get asked if I walk the dog more because of my reelection. I do what’s right for the country, the Constitution and Colorado.”
Senate GOP leaders have given conflicting answers about how many military construction projects would be protected from the emergency declaration, although Republicans have said money for such projects could be “backfilled” at a later time. McSally’s potential Democratic challenger, astronaut Mark Kelly, has called the emergency declaration “Washington at its worst.”
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