GOP senator changes his mind and doesn't break with Trump on emergency declaration — after saying he will
1 / 2Sen.Thom Tillis, R-N.C., attends a Senate Armed Services hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 14, 2019. Tillis has said he will vote to block President Donald Trump's border emergency as some GOP senators plan to join Democrats in a rebuke of Trump's declaration of a national emergency at the Mexican border.
He discussed the issue with Vice President Mike Pence and other senior administration officials, as well as Utah Sen. Mike Lee, who has been working a proposal to change the way national emergencies are declared, Tillis said. Lee's proposal stalled after Trump rejected it earlier this week.More than 76,000 people crossed the southern border illegally last month alone, he said.
A White House official said Tillis had been in regular touch with Pence and other officials as he weighed his vote. The official, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said the consistent message from the White House was that a vote in favor of the resolution was a vote against border security — an action that would be hard to explain to his state.
For Tillis, 58, decisions on how and when to support or oppose Trump are clearly shaded by his expected bid for a second Senate term next year — and the drive to hold off any strong challengers. In a floor speech and the Post op-ed, Tillis made clear that he shares Trump's concerns about border security.
While Tillis has been a reliable conservative vote during his first term, he's also pressed for bipartisanship, hardly letting a few days go by this year without news releases highlighting bills he's introduced with Democrats.
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