Trump issues his first vetoes of this term

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: CBS News

President Trump used his veto power this week for the first time since returning to the White House, rejecting a pair of bipartisan bills designed to make it easier to build a water pipeline in Colorado and give a Native American tribe more control over a portion of the Everglades.

Mr. Trump vetoed the two bills on Monday, the White House announced on X, after they were sent to his desk earlier this month. The bills had backers in both parties, and they passed the House and Senate through voice votes. Both houses of Congress would need to pass the bills again by a two-thirds margin to override the president's veto.

It's fairly rare for the president to exercise his veto power, especially when the president's party controls Congress. Mr. Trump vetoed 10 bills in his first term, all during his last two years in office, and former President Joe Biden used the veto power 13 times while in office.

One of the bills — the Miccosukee Reserved Area Amendments Act — would have added a small village called the Osceola Camp to a section of the Florida Everglades that the Miccosukee Native American Tribe has control over. It would also require the Department of the Interior to take action to protect structures in the village from flooding.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-issues-first-vetoes-term-031652243.html

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Why? Because he's an asshole.

[rampartd]

1. if the repubs put on their long pants and help override that veto

our nation could just, with a massive restoration project, survive.

it won't get fresh water to the coloradans, trump can easily go wildly over budget and delay for a very long time.

[Javaman]

4. you are asking a lot from the cowardly repukes. I don't think any one of them own big pants. nt

[stopdiggin]

2. benefits to minorities? did you not get the DEI memo .. ? - - -(nt)-

[Seinan Sensei]

3. I guess tRump forgot

Native Americans are the original American majority

[mopinko]

5. the osceola tribe sued over alligator alcatraz.

that’s y.

[mdbl]

6. Time to override the veto.

[Katinfl]

7. If both bills had bipartisan support, can't they override his veto?

[JohnnyRingo]

8. No doubt Stephen Miller sees that tribe as non-white immigrants

...trying to steal his America.
As for the pipeline, I'd like to see who it would have benefitted.

[uncle ray]

10. the pipeline would most directly benefit people that look like the ones trump is deporting.

that part of the state is largely Latino or native-American, with an agricultural economy supported by the Arkansas river.

[maxrandb]

9. LOL - "when the president 'partly controls' Congress"

"Partly controls Congress"????

Does this mean Speaker Johnson gets to choose whether to lap Donnie Dipshits left, or right ball?

[Fil1957]

11. Most of the beneficiaries of this bill are Trump voters. That, and the fact this passed unanimously by both houses,

makes one think it could be vetoed.

Republicans politicians will have to decide -- do they fear Trump, or do they fear their voters more? It will be interesting to find out.

If they do veto the bill, Trump will be even weaker than he has become over the last few months.

[Grins]

12. Why? Not because he's an asshole: To deliver a hit to Boebert for voting for the release of the Epstein files.

His entire life has been defined by his cruelty. He thrives on personal retaliation, on hurting others, on revenge, and here - getting even. With Boebert.

[Vinca]

13. And his reason is he wants to save taxpayers money. Now that's funny.