Republican Congressman Thomas Massie jumped across the aisle to support a Democratic-led measure on Tuesday that would terminate President Donald Trump's emergency declaration at the U.S. southern border.
"There is a crisis at our border, but it’s not an emergency when Congress doesn’t spend money how the president wants," Massie, whose district stretches across northern Kentucky, said on Twitter, hours ahead of the vote Tuesday evening.
"The president’s constitutional remedy is to veto spending bills that aren’t suitable to him, yet he has chosen to sign many bills that did not fund the wall,” he added.
House Democrats were able to get the resolution through by a 245-182 vote. More than 230 Democrats were joined by 13 Republicans in favor of the measure, while all the votes against came from the GOP.
"In order to be consistent in preserving the constitutional structure of our republic, I will be voting for the resolution to prevent the president from using a national emergency declaration to re-appropriate money for the wall," Massie said.
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