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For the first time, the US Congress overrode a veto by President Trump. This shows that the influence of the president is waning. His plans to reduce troops, even in Germany, are frustrated.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) walks into the Senate House before the vote to lift the veto of the National Defense Authorization Act on Capitol Hill in Washington, United States, on 1 January 2021.
In what was probably the last vote in the US Congress before its reconstitution, Republicans made it clear that their near-absolute loyalty to President Donald Trump is waning. Like Monday in the House of Representatives, they have now overridden Trump’s veto against the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) in the Senate. The result of 81 to 13 votes shows that opposition to Trump in the Grand Old Party has grown since Monday. In both houses of Congress, the required majority of two-thirds of the votes was clearly exceeded.
