House will vote Tuesday to block Trump wall funding grab

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The House will vote Tuesday on a joint resolution that would prevent President Trump from using a national emergency declaration to shift federal funding to the construction of a southern border wall.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., announced the schedule in a conference call Friday.

“The president is not above the law in any way, and this action he is taking is circumventing the Constitution of the United States and does violence to it,” Pelosi said.

The resolution was introduced by Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, on Friday and has 227 co-sponsors. Only one of them is a Republican.

“What’s really important is how they will vote on Tuesday when the legislation comes to the floor,” Pelosi said. “We will pass the resolution in the House and send it over to the Senate,” Pelosi said.

The Senate must take op the measure within 15 days of House passage.

Just four Republicans are needed to help Democrats pass the resolution in the Senate, but even if it clears Congress Trump will likely veto it.

Too few GOP backers means that a veto override is unlikely in the House, where 50 Republican lawmakers would have to join Democrats to block the president. The GOP-led Senate could decline to even take up a veto override measure.

The House Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing the national emergency declaration on Thursday.

[Related: 16 states sue over Trump border national emergency]

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