President Donald Trump on Wednesday vetoed a $740 billion defense spending bill that both the House and Senate passed earlier this month with veto-proof majorities.
The decision means both chambers of Congress must return to vote on whether to override the veto. It’s unclear if Republicans will vote to defy the outgoing president.
Trump threatened last week to veto the National Defense Authorization Act if it didn’t include a repeal of Section 230 of the Communication Decency Act, which protects tech giants such as Facebook and Twitter from legal liability for content posted on their platforms.
Trump has complained that the provision poses a threat to national security and argued that it protects Twitter for placing warning labels on his tweets.
The veto message also criticizes the NDAA for including “provisions that fail to respect our veterans and our military’s history,” by renaming military installations that honor Confederate leaders.
The bill also includes a 3% pay raise for troops, modernizes equipment, and requires further review before withdrawing troops from Germany or Afghanistan.
Clyde Hughes contributed to this report.
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He is going to keep Nancy in Washinton over the holidays by any means necessary, even if he has to pull her back by her hair. The vote will separate the Republican sheep from the protecting Guard Dogs, and out the self-serving RINO’s in disguise who will get primary’d in 2022.
Right now, i’d LOVE TO seal the entire congressional building UP, wiht all these traitors in side.. AND NEVER AGAIN OPEN IT UP!
The deep state House and Senate are a disgrace.
The time has come to weigh the good stuff that’s contained in the bill against the liberal garbage the the left has thrown into it because they can’t get it enacted into law any other way. The left needs to protect its biased propaganda arms from any sort of oversight.
If i was trump, i’d veto ANTYING congress sends him, from now till inauguration of biden.
Tell Congress to stop sending our money to other counties, especially to built border walls. Now that was CRAZY