Having lived and worked in both Cathy McMorris Rogers and Greg Walden’s districts, I’ve seen the infiltration of liberals settling in their rural, and historically conservative, regions. The result of the migration of leftists into right country makes it apparent that these two (and other republicans facing liberal incursion) will cross the line if the President can be expected to take the heat and cover for their transgression.
The 13 republicans who voted to disapprove the president’s invoking a national emergency due to the porous southern border allowing drugs, human traffickers and vicious criminals to saunter across, is nothing more than a political two-step (is there a pun in that?). Relying on the excuse that only Congress can designate funds, Rep. McMorris Rogers and the others decided to overrule their own branch that had legislated power to the president in the event of a national emergency, which would include allocating funds for the solution. (Note: the final text of the law is not available in digital form.)