GOP mulls next move after Kansas governor vetoes effort to help Texas in border security fight

The politician of Kansas is blocking an effort by Republican legislators to assistance Texas successful the partisan nationalist combat with the Biden medication implicit amerciable immigration

TOPEKA, Kan. -- Kansas' politician is blocking an effort by Republican legislators to springiness the state's National Guard a “border mission" of helping Texas successful its partisan combat with the Biden medication implicit amerciable immigration.

Top Republicans successful the Kansas House were considering Thursday whether their enclosure tin muster the two-thirds bulk indispensable to override Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's veto of migration provisions successful the adjacent authorities budget. The Senate's apical Republican promised to equine an override effort, but the House would ballot first.

Kelly connected Wednesday vetoed a fund proviso that would person directed her medication to confer with Texas' Republican governor, Greg Abbott, and nonstop Kansas National Guard unit oregon instrumentality to the border. The GOP connection would person helped Texas enforce a authorities instrumentality allowing its officials to apprehension migrants suspected of crossing into the U.S. illegally. She besides vetoed a proviso mounting speech $15.7 cardinal for the effort.

Abbott is successful a ineligible conflict with Democratic President Joe Biden's administration, which insists the U.S. Constitution gives the national authorities power of borderline security. In her veto message, Kelly said borderline information is simply a national contented and suggested that the fund provisions improperly encroached connected her powerfulness arsenic the Kansas National Guard's commandant successful chief.

“It is not the Legislature's relation to nonstop the operations oregon telephone retired the National Guard,” she wrote. “When a politician deploys soldiers arsenic portion of a national mission, it is done intentionally and successful a mode that ensures we are capable to support our communities.”

Kansas legislators reconvened Thursday aft a outpouring interruption and are scheduled to wrapper up their enactment for the twelvemonth Tuesday.

Republicans nationwide person expressed enactment for Texas, and Kansas Senate President Ty Masterson acknowledged Thursday that the $15.7 cardinal successful spending by Kansas would correspond mostly “moral support” for Texas' overmuch larger effort.

Masterson, a Wichita-area Republican, said the authorities constitution gives legislators the authorization to walk laws to springiness directions to agencies nether Kelly's control.

“She’s tied successful with the Biden administration, truthful she’s not motivated to assistance lick that problem,” helium said.

Earlier this year, the Kansas House and Senate approved abstracted resolutions expressing enactment for Texas. Democrats said the Texas governor's stance is constitutionally fishy and has created a humanitarian crisis.

Masterson said Republicans would effort to override the veto. However, due to the fact that the provisions were tucked into a fund bill, it's not wide that GOP leaders person the indispensable two-thirds majorities successful some chambers — though they would if each Republicans were contiguous and voted yes.

“We effort to springiness each options disposable to enactment our border, enactment our chap states and marque definite our nation’s safe," said House Majority Leader Chris Croft, a Kansas City-area Republican.