Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., could soon play a key role in protecting President Trump’s proposed border wall by refusing to hold a vote on a measure aimed at nullifying Trump’s national emergency declaration.

Congress is poised to send Trump a resolution in the coming weeks that rescinds the national emergency Trump issued on Friday to justify shifting billions of dollars in federal funds for border wall construction.

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