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King says the move is in blatant defiance of the Constitution and federal law.
But Democrats say she should have seen this coming when she backed the budget chief who told senators he considered a spending law unconstitutional.
President Trump moved to cancel almost $1 billion in spending that was approved by Congress, marking the second time his administration has employed a rarely used tactic that some lawmakers in both parties have called illegal.