House passes resolution to revoke Trump's national emergency declaration

Democrats, joined by 13 Republicans, passed the measure killing the president’s border wall order; it now moves to a Senate vote

The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives has advanced a resolution to terminate Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration at the US-Mexico border, in a bid to block the president from beginning construction on a border wall without approval from Congress.

In a vote of 245-182, the House easily passed the measure.

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