Trump signs garbage spending bill
(pjmedia.com)
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He pretty much had to, they would have just overruled the veto with a 2/3 majority anyway. IIUC there's still the option of a pocket veto, where he ensures that Congress is adjourned when the bill is supposed to become an act - but it looks more like he's trying to get them to vote on the individual items that he annotated, to put their names next to those things.
Yeah, but the question is whether they'll vote to release the funds in advance of the deadline.
IMO the situation largely boils down to either believing that congress will be under enough pressure to force their hand or not. In the latter case, they'll get the pork anyway, albeit more slowly, so it would be better to force them to overrule a veto.
As I'm extremely cynical, I'll go against the "disinformation" and other arguments that seem like over simplification or naivety. I'd love to be proven wrong about congressional temperature.
The reason I don't think a veto-on-principle would have been very effective is that this omnibus spending bill is basically a national budget, and members of Congress will defend voting for it on that basis. It's hard to justify throwing the whole thing out on the basis of a few wrinkles, and that's exactly the tactic they're using to push this through.
Now whether Trump's objections will do anything is another question - I'm not sure they even need to vote on them individually (as people on TD are saying) or if they can just sweep them aside as a whole. But I do think that an outright veto would have done nothing.
A few wrinkles it’s a 5,000 page onion of totalitarian insanity.
Hey I don't disagree, I'm just saying that's the reason they would give to vote for it anyway (now that people have actually seen the bill).