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The United States Senate had voted in favor of a legislative package on the defense budget, against the will of the president of the United States, Trump. But his veto could fail.
The United States Senate approved the defense budget against his will: Donald Trump
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The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has vetoed the defense budget approved by Congress. The wording of the law does not contain any “measures that are of crucial importance to national security” and contradicts the administration’s efforts “to put the United States first in national security and foreign policy,” Trump said Wednesday. He also complained that the measures he provided would help China and Russia.
The Democratic leader of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, has accused Donald Trump of endangering the country and the security of the US military. Pelosi spoke of vetoing an act of “stunning cruelty” that would harm US troops, endanger the security of the country and undermine the will of the US Congress.
Congress can override the veto
The 4,517-page budget text not only addresses the defense budget, but also includes many other measures related to national security and the military.
The budget text states, among other things, that the strength of US troops in Germany can only be reduced 120 days after a full report on the effects of such a withdrawal among 34,500 soldiers has been submitted. Given that Trump’s term ends on January 20, a troop withdrawal could not be carried out by then.
The US Department of Defense announced in late July that it would withdraw just under 12,000 soldiers from Germany, thus reducing the troop strength from around 36,000 at the time to 24,000.
New sanctions are also laid down in the legal text against the construction of Nord Stream 2. After a year-long hiatus, work to complete the pipeline resumed on Friday.
The presidential veto could be overridden with a two-thirds majority in both houses of Congress. These two-thirds majorities joined in the vote in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. However, this does not necessarily mean that such a majority would meet again in the event of a vote to override Trump’s veto.
