The House will sue to block President Trump from redirecting federal money to build a southern border wall, Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday.

A five-member House panel made up of three Democrats and two Republicans voted to challenge Trump in court over his February declaration of a national emergency, which he used to authorize moving $3.6 billion from a military construction budget to a border wall project.

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