Donald Trump vetoed defense budget, with consequences for Germany

Donald Trump vetoed the defense budget. The law also has consequences for Germany due to the planned troop withdrawal.

Washington: the current president of the United States Donald trump it has to be as expected Veto against what was decided by Congress Defense budget worth 740 billion dollars (about 610 billion euros).

He said he could not support the law because it contradicted his government’s foreign policy and national security. Donald trump on Wednesday (23.12.2020) in a letter to the House of Representatives. “It is a ‘gift’ to China and Russia,” Trump wrote, without explaining this.

Donald Trump against the defense budget: the president of the United States announced a previous step

Among other things, he criticized the fact that the law does not more closely regulate online platforms. He also criticized the renaming of several military bases, which was promoted after protests against racism. He also criticized the attempt to legally limit the withdrawal of soldiers from Afghanistan, South Korea and Germany that he had ordered. Donald trump. This is not only bad policy, but also unconstitutional, he wrote. Under the constitution, the president is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. The decision on how many soldiers should be deployed where is therefore yours.

Donald trump had his Veto already announced. However, his blockade could be overturned by a two-thirds majority in the House of Representatives and the Senate, that is, in both houses of Congress. Both houses had originally approved the package with a majority of more than two-thirds. Parliament could reportedly vote on it again in the week after Christmas.

Shortly before the end of his presidency, it would be the first time that Donald trumpthat Congress will be Veto scorn. Trump has vetoed it eight times in his four-year term. The Republican lost the presidential election on November 3 to Democrat Joe Biden. Trump refuses to admit defeat. Biden will be sworn in on January 20. Until then, Trump remains in office with full rights.

Donald Trump vetoed: not solving the defense budget is politically unthinkable

the Defense budget it was passed with bipartisan support for 59 consecutive years. Since the failure of the defense budget is politically unthinkable, the legislative package, as usual, also deals with numerous regulations that actually have nothing to do with financing the armed forces.

Donald trump he had wanted Congress to change what is known as Section 230, which protects online platforms from being liable for content posted by their users. Trump called Wednesday’s ruling “a serious threat to national security and the integrity of the election.” Critics, in turn, accuse Trump of only seeking revenge because he is angry at Twitter and Facebook because they had warned him about his claims about the crown crisis and alleged fraud in the presidential election.

Defense budget blocks withdrawal of troops from Germany, Donald Trump absolutely wants it

The legislative package establishes, among other things, that the Donald trump The planned mass withdrawal of US soldiers from Germany is blocked for the time being. There it says that secretary of defense it must declare in a report to Congress whether such a withdrawal would be in the national interest of the United States. The number of US soldiers stationed in the Federal Republic may fall below the 34,500 limit at least 120 days later. The law also states that threats of sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 oil pipeline in the German-Russian Baltic Sea will be expanded.

Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Mark Warner, Democrat, criticized Donald Trump’s veto decision they pose a serious threat to national security and he hopes to overturn this “unsuccessful and ridiculous attempt” by the president, he said. (dpa)

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