Trump tries to win votes in Senate fight
Trump is pressing Republican senators in a last-ditch effort to win votes against a measure disapproving of his emergency declaration to build a wall on the Mexican border.
Trump is going to lose the Senate vote later this week, but the White House wants to keep the tally as low as possible and the president is now putting skin in the game trying to sway undecided GOP lawmakers.
“We talk to a number of members every single day, certainly at the presidential and the staff level, and we’re going to continue to engage with them in this process,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters Monday.
Senate Majority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.) said “the president and the White House and some of our members are still discussing the path forward and hoping we get kind of a resolution.”
A senior Senate Republican aide said the White House is “very involved” in trying to come up with a solution to avoid an embarrassing vote later this week.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/433590-trump-tries-to-win-votes-in-senate-fight
