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Romney, Lee no fans of Trump’s emergency order but will they vote to overturn it?

Washington • Sens. Mike Lee and Mitt Romney of Utah were not fans of President Donald Trump declaring a national emergency, though neither will say yet whether they will vote to override his action that would siphon funds from the Pentagon to build a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Lee and Romney, both Republicans, are two of a handful of Republican senators who have not said if they'll vote with Democrats on a resolution to cancel the national emergency, which many experts have said is legally dubious and already the subject of several lawsuits.

Four GOP senators have already said they will join 45 Democrats and two independents in the Senate to vote for the House-led resolution.