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The Pentagon, the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, in Washington DC – Photo: AP
According to the Associated Press, on December 13, US President Donald Trump gave new reasons for the threat to veto the annual US defense policy bill.: China.
“The biggest winner from our new defense bill is China! I will veto,” Trump wrote on Twitter, but did not specifically explain his concerns.
Previously, both the US House of Representatives and the US Senate passed this bill with more than 2/3 support, enough to overcome President Trump’s veto. There is a need for 2/3 of support in each house for a bill to become law without Trump’s signature.
The bill is called DDefense Authorization Act (NDAA), provided $ 740 billion defense budget for the US Department of Defense in fiscal year 2021. The NDAA became law for 59 consecutive years. He Trump has threatened to stop the bill before leaving office.
However, l Mitch McConnell, nand republican gentleman the Majority Leader in the US Senate said the bill would help prevent aggressive behavior from China. He said the NDAA “will keep our forces ready to stop China and stay strong in the Indo-Pacific.”
Some other Republican members as senators John Thune, Congressman Mike Gallagher assessed on Twitter that the NDAA bill would help counter the threat from many countries like China.
Gallagher said the United States is in the early stages of a “New Cold War” with China and that the NDAA defense bill “takes important steps to help them.” we dealt with the challenges and finally won the competition. “
According to Reuters, Trump opposes the fiscal 2021 NDAA because the bill does not eliminates article 230 of the Communications Standards Act (CDA) that protects technology companies such as Google, Twitter and Facebook of the demands of content published on its platform. Trump said tech companies have a bias toward conservatives.
