Trump Signs $1.3T Budget Despite Threat to Veto

The US is in discussions with the countries “on satisfactory alternative means to address the threatened impairment to the national security by imports of steel articles”, and tariffs on steel imports from the trade partners will be exempt for now, it said.

President Donald Trump is expressing displeasure at the size of the omnibus government spending bill but is saying “we had no choice but to fund our military”. His latest rant involved the Omnibus Spending Bill. The Supreme Court ruled in 1998 that a congressionally passed line-item veto was unconstitutional. “The Democrats would not do it”, the president said.

FILE – Prototypes for U.S. President Donald Trump’s border wall with Mexico are seen behind the current border fence in this picture taken from the Mexican side of the border in Tijuana, Oct. 12, 2017.

Trump threatened to do just that in an early-morning tweet, lashing out over Congress’s failure to fully fund his border wall or address the fate of immigrants brought to the USA illegally as children. While Marc Short, White House legislative affairs director, doesn’t appear to be anxious by the tweet, stating to CNN that he thinks “we’ll be OK”, others are rooting for Trump to go through with the veto.

It also failed to resolve the stalemate over shielding young Dreamer immigrants from deportation after Mr Trump’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme past year.

The spending package includes $1.6bn for Mr Trump’s long-promised border wall with Mexico. We wanted to include DACA, we wanted to have them in this bill, 800,000 people and actually it could even be more. The bill also included a $63 billion increase in domestic non-defense spending, pleasing Democrats. The White House has been radio silent.

Trump said he had signed the bill despite his qualms on some issues, because a $US60 billion increase in military spending had convinced him it was a worthwhile compromise.

Adjusted for inflation, total military spending swelled to more than $774 billion in the 2010 fiscal year from roughly $400 billion in the 2000 fiscal year, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Democrats offered to provide the money but only if Trump agreed to provide DACA recipients with a path to USA citizenship, as he had in an earlier debate.

Yet, President Trump is injecting serious bucks right into armed forces spending, which this guy made sure was incorporated within the bill.

“But it does start the wall and we will make that $1.6bn go very far”, he said on Friday. However, those who are eligible but were not enrolled in the program are not protected.

But then he turned around and agreed to sign the bill anyway, just a few hours later.

In Ohio as well, Mike Gibbons, a Republican running in the Senate primary against Rep. Jim Renacci, is hitting Renacci on the spending bill – even though Renacci voted against it. Gibbons’ argument is that Renacci, as a House Budget Committee member, is responsible for the product. Along with the recent GOP tax cuts law, the bill that stood a foot tall at some lawmakers’ desks ushers in the return of $1 trillion deficits.

“If anyone thinks the president is going to play a positive role in the conversation on Dreamers they’re making a huge mistake”, Representative Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) told Newsweek. White House budget officials have nonetheless tried to spin the funding as a win.