"Paul (R-Ky.) said in a speech Saturday at the Southern Kentucky Lincoln Day Dinner that he “can’t vote to give extra-Constitutional powers to the president,” the Bowling Green Daily News reported.
“I can’t vote to give the president the power to spend money that hasn’t been appropriated by Congress,” Paul said, according to the newspaper. “We may want more money for border security, but Congress didn’t authorize it. If we take away those checks and balances, it’s a dangerous thing.”
Paul joins fellow Republican Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Thom Tillis (N.C.) in opposing Trump’s move, a reflection of some resistance within the GOP to what lawmakers see as executive overreach and a test of the constitutional separation of powers."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republican-sen-rand-paul-says-he-will-vote-for-measure-blocking-trumps-emergency-declaration-paving-way-for-passage/2019/03/03/d5c8a2ba-3ddb-11e9-a0d3-1210e58a94cf_story.html?utm_term=.5614999d58a5
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