Trump Threatens Veto Of Omnibus Spending Bill Over DACA, Wall Funding

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USA government funding is set to expire at midnight and, if Trump follows through on his threat it nearly assuredly would trigger the third partial shutdown of the year. But I say to Congress that I will never sign another bill like this again. “We’re going to be starting work literally on Monday on not only some new wall – not enough but we’re working on that very quickly – but also fixing existing walls”, he said.

“There’s a lot of things that I’m unhappy about in this bill”, he said, even though it was cleared by a Congress controlled by his own party. The Supreme Court ruled the line-item veto unconstitutional 20 years ago.

Annual debt interest payments alone could rise to $1 trillion within the decade.

“It’s a pretty good signal when the Congress says, ‘We’ll see you one and raise you one, ‘” said Steve Cochran, who deals with Gulf of Mexico protection for the Environmental Defense Fund. “It’s short-term funding but it’s immediately”. “Would have been tied to desperately needed Wall”, he wrote.

“We looked at a veto, I looked very seriously at the veto”. Instead, the spending package increases the office’s budget by 14 percent to $2.32 billion.

Mattis quoted George Washington in saying that “to be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace”.

Aides had been insisting Trump would sign the measure because it authorizes tens of billions of dollars in additional military spending.

US President Donald Trump said today he had signed the United States dollars 1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill passed by Congress despite being “unhappy” about it to avert a government shutdown, hours after saying he was considering a veto.

Instead, in his veto threat, Trump proposed something that conservative hard-liners have largely rejected in recent months – trading DACA protections for border wall money.

“While (Democrats) obstructed normal appropriations process, forcing an Omnibus, the benefits of Omnibus to national security, border security, opioid crisis, infrastructure, school safety and fixing gun background check system are important and will save lives”.

The will-he, won’t-he episode came hours after the Senate’s early morning passage of the huge spending package aimed at keeping the government open past Friday midnight.

A Trump veto would have led to a government shutdown, with the deadline to pass a spending bill looming late Friday night. He urged the president to sign the bill.

Trump had announced the news conference at 12:32 p.m.

Some in Congress have expressed displeasure with the bill citing the massive deficits the measure will likely produce.

At the beginning of the news conference, he disparaged the bill multiple times.

The immigrants, who were protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) programme – which Trump ended last September – “have been treated extremely badly by Democrats”, Trump said.

It does include $1.6 billion worth of border wall funding – much less than the $25 billion the White House asked for. It was written to fill out a budget outline that Congress passed, and Trump signed, in February.

‘As a matter of National Security I’ve signed the Omnibus Spending Bill.

Trump’s tweet created confusion after Congress gave final approval early Friday to the spending bill, which is needed to avert a federal shutdown. White House budget officials have nonetheless tried to spin the funding as a win. They also spared almost a dozen similar programs benefiting Chesapeake Bay, the Gulf of Mexico, Puget Sound, San Francisco Bay and other iconic waters, which the president’s budget had recommended killing or cutting to the bone.

The brand new piece, which was released on Friday, touches on the incessant White House firings and staff member exits, Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury”, and Vladimir Putin in typical Simpsons fashion, by tackling the topics in the most satirical way possible.

Lawmakers voting for the spending bill were trying to avert the third federal shutdown this year, something both parties want to avoid.