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Another Senate Republican has come out against Trump’s national emergency and is giving the president an ultimatum to avoid a battle with the GOP:

POLITICO – Senate Republicans are offering a choice to President Donald Trump: Withdraw your national emergency declaration at the border or face a potential rebellion from the GOP.

The message was delivered clearly on Thursday by Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), part of an effort by senior Republicans to avoid a direct confrontation with Trump on the Senate floor.

In a much-anticipated floor speech, the retiring senator declined to state whether he will become the deciding vote to block the president’s maneuver. But he signaled broad opposition to the emergency declaration and sought to convince Trump that he has other ways to collect $5.7 billion for the border wall — the precise amount of money he demanded during the government shutdown fight.

“He’s got sufficient funding without a national emergency, he can build a wall and avoid a dangerous precedent,” Alexander told reporters afterward, referring to billions from a drug forfeiture fund and anti-drug smuggling money at the Defense Department. “That would change the voting situation if he we were to agree to do that.”

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HE CAN CHANGE HIS MIND…

Asked how the GOP can avoid a battle with Trump, one Senate Republican considering voting for the disapproval resolution said: “He can change his mind.”

“The president can get way more money than he’s even asking for without setting the Constitution on its head,” said this undecided senator, who requested anonymity to speak frankly. “I am very, very skeptical about the precedent this makes.”

If this is truly an undecided senator and it’s not Alexander, then that would mean the Senate will likely send the resolution to Trump’s desk when it comes up for a vote.

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As we’ve said before, Trump will veto the resolution and it will die. Unless this GOP ‘rebellion’ is much bigger than it looks.

It would take 20 Republicans in the Senate to join Democrats to get a 2/3rds majority and override the veto and 53 Republicans in the House. And that’s only if the Senate even takes up the vetoed resolution.