Trump signs massive spending bill, backing away from veto threat
Source: The Hill
BY JORDAN FABIAN - 03/23/18 01:29 PM EDT
President Trump on Friday signed a massive $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill, ending the uncertainty over whether he would force a government shutdown.
Trump made the announcement during an impromptu event at the White House where he highlighted the legislation's infusion of funds for the Pentagon in explaining why he was signing it.
"There are a lot of things I'm unhappy about with this bill," Trump said, arguing "nobody read" the bill. But he argued the defense spending and the need to take care of the military meant he had to sign it.
As a matter of national security, Ive signed this omnibus budget bill, Trump said.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/379956-trump-says-hell-sign-massive-spending-bill-backing-away-from-veto
Trump to sign spending bill after earlier veto threat
Trump surprised Hill leaders by tweeting his displeasure with the spending bill's lack of full funding for his border wall and attention to Dreamers.
By ELANA SCHOR, BURGESS EVERETT, MATTHEW NUSSBAUM and RACHAEL BADE 03/23/2018 09:05 AM EDT Updated 03/23/2018 12:39 PM EDT
UPDATE 1:12 p.m.:
President Donald Trump told congressional leaders on Friday that he would sign the $1.3 trillion spending bill, according to a source familiar with the conversation. Trump earlier in the day raised the threat of a government shutdown by saying he was considering vetoing the legislation.
Trump surprised Hill leaders and some of his own senior aides by expressing in a tweet his displeasure with the spending bill's lack of full funding for his border wall and attention to undocumented immigrants known as Dreamers. The tweet came after the White House on Thursday said he would sign the bill.
ORIGINAL STORY:
Just when Congress thought it had headed off a government shutdown, President Donald Trump yanked Washington right back to the brink.
In a Friday morning tweet that stunned even some of his closest advisers, Trump threatened a VETO of a $1.3 trillion spending bill that Congress had cleared just hours earlier.
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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/23/trump-threatens-to-veto-13-trillion-spending-bill-raising-risk-of-a-government-shutdown-482181
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)riversedge
(70,349 posts)not caring about the military.
spiderpig
(10,419 posts)He is demented and constantly going offscript.
Submariner
(12,511 posts)Somebody needs to tell this shit stain that Democrats also serve in the military.
Matter of fact, tell him Democrat mechanics are the ones who keep Marine 1 and Air Force 1 running, and if Fake Bone Spur Trump does not keep his cowardly mouth shut, they may forget to put parts back in the engines or pee in the fuel tanks.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)his own republican chickenheartedness and chickenhawkishness.
Sad.
C_U_L8R
(45,025 posts)hibbing
(10,110 posts)What a crock, their budget goes up every year with bipartisan approval.
Peace
onecent
(6,096 posts)alot of Millions???? A 1.3 Trillion spending bill could sure be used by HIS FAMILY.
That's WHAT SCARES ME. Please someone tell me that's not where the money is going??? to Dotards
pockets!!!!!!!!!!!
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Incoherent and incomprehensible "statement" on why/not why he would sign bill - and DACA on Democrats?
This has to end.
ffr
(22,674 posts)Nowhere to be found, as usual. They're chicken-hawks. Little more.