WASHINGTON_Senate Republicans are rallying around Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell even as it appears he'll fail to protect President Donald Trump from a sharp rebuke on his top domestic priority: an emergency declaration to build a wall at the border with Mexico.
McConnell, who had initially warned Trump against going around Congress for the money, agreed to support it. But he and the White House have been unable to quell Republican opposition that threatens to result Thursday in a rare loss for Trump in the Republican-controlled Senate.
While Trump at the White House declared it a "bad thing" that a number of Republican senators are poised to side with Democrats and back a resolution to block his declaration, McConnell's Republican caucus voiced nothing but support for the majority leader's strategy.
