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At the end of his term, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, must accept a bitter defeat in Congress. The House of Representatives overturned its veto on the defense budget. Now it is the turn of the Senate, which could offer a premiere this week.
In the vote in the House of Representatives, which is dominated by Democrats, the required two-thirds majority for the defense budget came Monday night. However, this was only successful because 109 Republicans openly opposed the president. A total of 322 MPs voted against Trump’s veto, while 87 MPs did not want to override the objection. If, in a next step, the Republican-dominated United States Senate (again with a two-thirds majority) votes against Trump’s line, the congressional veto would be overridden for the first time in his term.
Trump’s reasons for the veto
Trump vetoed the $ 740.5 billion defense budget approved by Congress last week. He gave several reasons for this, including the fact that the text went against his plans to withdraw troops from Germany, as well as from Afghanistan and South Korea. Trump also criticized the fact that the wording of the law provides for the renaming of military bases that currently still bear the name of generals of the 19th-century Southern Confederacy. The southern states had fought in vain to maintain slavery in the civil war (1861-65).
America’s defense budget has been approved with bipartisan support for the past 59 years. Among other things, Pentagon policy and decisions about troop strength, new weapons systems, personnel policy, and other military objectives are based on budget law. Because the failure of the military budget is politically unthinkable, the package, as usual, also deals with numerous regulations that actually have nothing to do with financing the armed forces.
During his tenure, Trump was able to rely heavily on Republican supporters in Congress. However, since his electoral defeat, he has encountered growing resistance among Republican members of Congress.
Delivered on January 20
Their refusal for days to sign the CoV aid package with a volume of around $ 900 billion was recently criticized from their own ranks. Trump then relented on Sunday and signed the package of measures in force.
Trump’s term expires on January 20, 2021. On this day, Biden is sworn in as the 46th president of the United States. Yet Trump has yet to acknowledge his electoral defeat and tirelessly raises unsubstantiated allegations of electoral manipulation. More recently, he called for participation in a demonstration scheduled for January 6 in Washington. Congress must be pressured not to certify Biden’s electoral victory.
On January 6, the congress will officially count the result of the electoral college vote, actually a mere formality. The electorate had already clearly confirmed Biden’s victory on December 14.
“Trump blocked”
The future president of the United States, Joe Biden, accuses the Donald Trump administration of further blocking the transfer. In a speech in his hometown of Wilmington, Biden complained that his team did not get all the information they needed when it came to key national security issues. This is “irresponsible”.
Biden specifically complained to the Defense Ministry and criticized the department for putting obstacles in the way of his team and obstructing the handover. Biden’s team had previously complained that the Defense Ministry was deliberately canceling briefings and withholding information. The Pentagon rejected this once again.
The orderly handover of official business after a presidential election is truly anchored in the law. The goal is to ensure that Americans can always count on a government that works.
