Banks County Sheriff Carlton Speed today stood with other law enforcement officers in the oval office to champion border wall funding. Trump vetoed a bi-partisan resolution rejecting his recent national emergency declaration. He said the resolution, which would have reversed the national emergency, “put countless Americans in danger.”
By declaring a national emergency, the president hopes to bypass Congressional funding authority and use military and other funds to pay for construction of a wall along the nation’s southern border.
Sheriff Speed trumpeted his visit to the White House with a selfie photo and social media post from the airplane on his way to Washington.
“Breaking News!!! Sheriff Speed is once again heading to Washington and representing Banks County at the Oval Office,” the post states. Speed was contacted by the National Sheriff’s Association on Thursday and asked “to personally stand with President Trump” as he vetoed the measure. In the post he called the veto signing ceremony an “historical event.”
The resolution Trump vetoed now goes back to the US House of Representatives. The House is not expected to come up with the two-thirds majority vote needed to override the veto.
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