Sasse Blames Pelosi for His Vote Backing Trump

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) explained in a statement after voting against a rebuke of President Trump declaration of a border emergency that it’s Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s fault.

While Sasse thinks the law Trump used to declare an emergency to sidestep Congress “is overly broad” and in need of a fix, “at present Nancy Pelosi doesn’t, so I am therefore voting against her politically motivated resolution. As a constitutional conservative, I believe that the law currently on the books should be narrowed considerably.”