Senate Republicans voting for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's resolution opposing President Donald Trump's emergency declaration essentially give her control of the Senate as well as the House, making no sense, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said Thursday.
"What I hope the Republican Senate does is not to give Nancy Pelosi control of the U.S. Senate, but to come up with our own piece of legislation that basically states what our position is, that we Republicans in the Senate support building the wall," Sen. Johnson told Fox News' "America's Newsroom."
And, if senators do not like the use of the National Emergency Act, then they should vote to change the act, said Johnson, who is co-sponsoring legislation that returns some power on emergency declarations back to Congress.
However, the way the law is now, Trump has the authority to take action, and he is operating within his legal bounds, Johnson said.
But, Johnson said he thinks it is a "very dangerous thing" for anyone to vote against border security, especially Republicans, as they put their jobs in "great jeopardy."
In addition, Pelosi does not have the votes to override a veto of her resolution, Johnson said.
"We should support the president," he said. "We do have a crisis at the border. In 2014, President (Barack) Obama said it was a humanitarian crisis when 120,000 unaccompanied children and people coming in as families across the border illegally and were apprehended. Last year, 145,000 people came in illegally under those same categories in five months."
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