President Trump issues first veto after a rebuke from congress. Image Courtesy – Democracy Now
US President Donald Trump issued his first ‘veto’ during his presidency, nullifying the US Congress’s defence of his emergency declaration for border wall funding.
To him, the situation was a national emergency that extended the immigration system of the country beyond the breaking point. Parents of the children killed by people and officials of law and order were present there.
Trump kept up that he was not through battling for his campaign promise, which remained mostly unfulfilled year and a half before voters chose whether to give him another term as President.
Donald Trump wanted to implement the emergency order to channelise billions of federal dollars assigned to spend on defence toward the Southern border wall. But, the order has been facing various legal challenges from environmental groups and Democratic state attorneys general who had an argument that the emergency declaration was ‘unconstitutional’.
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The initiative of Donald Trump could have been blocked for a couple of months or more from channelising extra money to the construction of the wall. The American Civil Liberties Union filed one of the cases against Trump, stating that the veto was meaningless.
The American Congress rejected Trump’s declaration. They said that they wanted to face him in court, and an independent judiciary of the court would take the ultimate decision about the declaration’s legality.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, said that Trump’s veto was a ‘lawless power grab’. She also said that denying the decision of both the chamber, Trump has tried to disobey the American Constitution, the American Congress and the will of the American people.
