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Donald Trump, after giving in to pressure and signing a $ 900 billion coronavirus relief and stimulus package, faces another potential embarrassment this week in the final days of his presidency with Congress poised to override his veto on a bill defense law.
FILE: US President Donald Trump addresses supporters during a campaign rally at MBS International Airport in Freeland, Michigan on September 10, 2020. Image: AFP.
WASHINGTON – Donald Trump, after giving in to pressure and signing a $ 900 billion coronavirus relief and stimulus package, faces another possible embarrassment this week in the final days of his presidency with Congress poised to override his veto of a defense bill.
A two-thirds majority vote is needed in the 435-member House of Representatives and the 100-seat Senate, which appear capable of overriding a Trump veto for the first time.
The $ 740.5 billion National Defense Authorization Act was passed this month by the Democratic-controlled House and the Republican-majority Senate.
It went by 335 votes to 78 in the House and 84 to 13 in the Senate.
But the NDAA was vetoed by Trump because he failed to repeal Section 230, a federal law that provides liability protection to internet companies, and sought to strip several U.S. military bases of the names of generals who fought for the pro-slavery South in 1861. -65 United States Civil War.
The House will vote to override Trump’s veto later Monday, and Democrats are optimistic they have enough Republican support to do so. The Senate will address the matter on Tuesday.
For a real estate mogul who prides himself on being a skilled negotiator, the past few days have been an exercise in humiliation.
Trump threatened for days not to sign the COVID-19 relief and spending bill that had been drafted by his own Treasury secretary and had received broad bipartisan support in Congress.
Trump’s surprise move ran the risk of shutting down the government starting Tuesday and depriving millions of Americans of much-needed economic relief during the pandemic.
He eventually backed down and signed the bill Sunday night at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, out of sight of television cameras.
In an attempt to save face, Trump issued a statement expressing his complaints about the November 3 election and claiming that he had obtained a number of concessions.
‘STOP THE MADNESS’
The bizarre episode highlighted the degree to which Trump has isolated himself while criticizing on Twitter his electoral defeat to Democrat Joe Biden.
In a sign of his waning influence, the Rupert Murdoch property New York Post, one of Trump’s most ardent supporters, published an editorial Sunday night telling him to “Stop the Madness” and acknowledging that he lost the election.
“Mr. President, it is time to end this dark charade,” the newspaper said. “We understand, Mr. President, that you are angry that you lost.
“But continuing on this path is ruinous,” he said. Send said. “If you insist on spending your last days in office threatening to burn everything down, that’s how they will remember it.
“Not as a revolutionary, but as the anarchist who supports the party.”
Trump’s Twitter account was unusually quiet Monday morning when he left Mar-a-Lago for another round of golf at the nearby Trump International Golf Club.
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