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NATO Increases Defense Spending, Yet Just Six Countries Meet Trump’s Targets


NATO members increased their defense spending over the course of 2018 following pressure from the United States, yet just six countries are meeting targets set last year by President Donald Trump. 

Dem Rep. Castro Urges GOP, Dems to ‘Fight Back’ Against Trump’s ‘Enormous’ ‘Power Grab’


Thursday, Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) reacted to the 59-41 Senate vote to overturn President Donald Trump’s national emergency border declaration. A dozen Republican senators voted with Democrats. Castro said, “I absolutely would urge House leadership, I hope to work with Speaker Pelosi and others, Steny Hoyer, on taking a vote on this, assuming the president vetoes this as he said he’s going to do. This is the most constitutional vote we have taken in a generation on the balance of powers between the presidency and Congress. If we don’t stand up together as Republicans and Democrats and fight back against this power grab, then 20 years from now we’ll be talking about this moment that the presidency usurped enormous power from the Congress.” Follow Pam Key on Twitter @pamkeyNEN

Schumer: We Intend to Have More Votes on Emergency Declaration


During a press conference on Thursday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) stated that Senate Democrats intend to bring the resolution against President Trump’s national emergency declaration up for further votes. Schumer said, “[T]he president will first veto it. It goes to the House. It won’t have the 2/3ds. But I believe the law allows us to bring it up every six months, and certainly, we would intend to do that.” Schumer then responded to a question on what would be the point of bringing the resolution up again by stating, “The point of defending the checks and balances that the Founding Fathers put so exquisitely into our government? We’ve got to defend it ten times, even if they knock it down, in hopes of winning the eleventh.” Follow Ian Hanchett on Twitter @IanHanchett