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Local Congresswoman disagrees with Presidential veto

It shouldn’t have been the first time President Donald Trump used his veto pen.

That’s how Congresswoman Cheri Bustos feels about Trump vetoing a Congressional resolution that could have overturned the National Emergency declaration over the situation at the southern border.

Bustos tells WGIL she thinks it will still be overturned yet.

“First time for any president to do this in this way. I think it’s really unconscionable. What will end up happening is this will end up in court. It will delay this whole process. It’ll cost a lot of taxpayer dollars to fight this out.”

Bustos adds that Trump doesn’t really believe border security is a national emergency.

“In that same breath that he said he was declaring a national emergency, he also said it wasn’t really an emergency. That he was just doing this so he could get the money that he wanted. Never in the history of our nation has a president used the emergency declaration as a way to just get the money that he wants for something that he even clearly admits is not a national emergency.”

The East Moline Democrat says Congress has provided plenty of money for border security, not — however — in the form of a wall. The budget Trump presented to Congress last week includes more money for a border wall than Trump has previously brought up.

 

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