Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) signaled today that he is still unsure about the legality of President Donald Trump’s emergency executive action to build a U.S.-Mexico border wall.

“Well, [the national emergency’s legality] is part of what we were discussing today,” McConnell said of his meeting with Vice President Mike Pence after a reporter asked for his thoughts. “The [Justice Deparment] lawyer was there to make his arguments [for the wall]; there were some counter-arguments. I haven’t reached a total conclusion about [it].”

“It dominated the entire discussion, about the legality, the appropriateness, and all the rest,” he added.

Trump is planning to reappropriate $3.6 billion allocated for military construction for the border wall, which was rejected from the official budget.

The Democratic-run House is expected to push through a resolution that would make Trump’s reappropriation plan void. The Republican-controlled Senate will then vote on the House’s opposition to the action, which could kill the president’s plan before it starts.

“I personally couldn’t handicap the outcome at this point,” McConnell said of the vote on the House resolution. “But we will certainly be voting on it.”

“There are different points of view about how to address that, and all of that will be dealt with publicly on the floor before we have the vote,” the Kentucky lawmaker said.

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