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For the first time since his election, on Friday the Senate with a Republican majority rejected the veto of the president of the United States, Donald Trump.
The president vetoed the $ 740 billion ($ 220.2 trillion) defense budget law, challenging various elements of the defense approval law.
The Senate overruled the president’s veto by 81 votes to 13, far more than the required two-thirds majority, just two days before the re-elected Congress on Sunday, November 3, takes the oath and takes office.
Trump, who will resign on January 20 following his presidential defeat, had already successfully vetoed the presidency eight times.
The Defense Budget Act has passed smoothly every year since the 1960s. The two houses of Congress, the Democratic-majority House of Representatives and the Republican-majority Senate, also passed it by a large majority this year, but the president has vetoed a two-thirds majority in both houses of the legislature to overwrite it.
Members of the Senate voted one by one and it was clear on Friday afternoon local time that a sufficient number of senators would vote against the presidential veto.
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