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Donald Trump suffered a major defeat in the United States Congress, after the Senate, where Republicans have the majority, adopted, despite Trump’s opposition, the defense budget of $ 740 billion, reports Agerpres.
Thus, the Senate, although it is the chamber in which Trump’s Republicans are the majority, approved the defense budget with more than two thirds of the votes – the required threshold – and without taking into account the objections expressed by the incumbent president. .
The House of Representatives, with a Democratic majority, did the same.
Therefore, the budget is finally approved, and Donald Trump registers another defeat in the last days of his term.
Trump had refused to approve the text because it did not include the repeal of a law known as “Article 230”, which protects the legal status of social networks, which he accuses of prejudice against him.
Trump also disagreed with the intention to rename the military bases that honor the generals of the Confederate force who supported slavery through this Pentagon funding bill.
“Unfortunately, this law does not include measures crucial to national security, runs counter to my administration’s efforts to put the United States first in terms of national security and foreign policy, and includes provisions that do not respect our veterans and our military history “. “Said President Trump in his official message to Congress, in which he also considered the law as a” gift to China and Russia. “
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