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On Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the defense budget bill by an overwhelming majority, defying outgoing Republican President Donald Trump’s threat to veto the vote. On the other hand, the Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit filed by the Trump campaign to prevent the Pennsylvania results from being ratified.
The defense budget bill received 335 out of 430 votes in the House of Representatives, which far exceeds the two-thirds majority of the votes needed to override the presidential veto that the outgoing president had stirred.
Republicans voted overwhelmingly in favor of the resolution, in clear defiance of Trump.
Earlier, Trump tweeted: “I hope House Republicans will vote against the bill” on the defense budget “that I will face with a veto.”
But this appeal did not work, since of 196 Republican deputies, only 40 voted against the decision. It is not known if all Republicans will keep their vote, to counter any possible Trump veto.
The defense budget bill, which stands at $ 740.5 billion, has been the focus of negotiations between Republican and Democratic MPs for months over a 3% increase in defense personnel salaries.
President’s plugs
The Republican president has several deficiencies in this budget, since the text does not include the abolition of article 230, which protects the legal status of social networks and which Trump accuses of bias against him.
Trump criticizes the bill for providing the name change of military bases in honor of generals who in the Civil War were affiliated with the pro-slavery camp.
The bill also contradicts Trump’s approach to reducing the military presence in Germany. And it imposes on the Pentagon a period of no less than 120 days before any reduction in the US military count there, which means no withdrawal can be made before Democratic President-elect Joe Biden takes office.
The bill stipulates that any military withdrawal from Germany at a stage of “increasing threats” in Europe “constitutes a dangerous strategic mistake” that would weaken US national security interests and weaken NATO.
This text must now be voted on in the Senate, where it is expected to also pass, before sending it to President Trump.
Lose battles
For its part, the Supreme Court on Tuesday dealt a blow to Trump’s attempts to reverse the results of the presidential election, by rejecting an appeal filed by his allies to prevent the approval of the electoral results in the state.
The country’s highest court did not provide any justification for this decision. It includes 9 judicial bodies, including 3 appointed by the outgoing president.
Trump had threatened to go to the Supreme Court the day after the election.
More than a month after the elections, the outgoing president continued to refuse to admit defeat to his democratic opponent, presenting himself as the victim of “large-scale fraud”.
Trump has filed complaints in several major states with the help of his allies, but has suffered about 20 setbacks.
In Arizona, the Supreme Court upheld Biden’s victory after the Republican’s claim was rejected for giving him more time for scrutiny.
In the same context, the Supreme Court granted 4 undecided states until tomorrow Thursday to respond to complaints that the election results are illegal in those states.
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