The U.S. House of Representatives is about to override the legislative beast of President Donald Trump setting the annual U.S. military budget.
The House under Democratic control is also willing to accept a proposal to raise the COVID-19 relief payments that will be sent to U.S. citizens to $ 2,000.
Congress had approved payments of just $ 600 to individuals as part of a $ 900bn COVID-19 aid bill passed last week. In signing the COVID-19 aid bill on Sunday, Trump said he wanted to see more direct relief given to struggling Americans.
It would cost the stimulus reviews to $ 2,000 from an additional $ 600 to $ 464bn, the Joint Committee on Transportation on Taxation estimated.
The House vote on direct payments on Monday is largely symbolic, with Congress nearing the end of its session and a new Congress and President Joe Biden expected to begin debating a new round of aid legislation. COVID-19 early next year.
Meanwhile, a broad bipartisan majority in both the House and Senate had backed the defense bill, which allows for $ 740bn in defense funding, giving it a pay rise. U.S. soldiers and their families. Trump banned it on Dec. 23.
Rejection of the president’s visa would be both a measure of his impact in Congress and the legislators are in serious disagreement with his philosophy for opposing the bill.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had called Trump’s veto “an act of outrageous inconsistency” when she announced last week that the House would return today to vote on the issue.
The Republican-led Senate is scheduled to vote on the issue on Dec. 29. If the Senate enters the House in overthrowing the Trump beast by more than a two-thirds majority, the bill becomes a law without Trump’s signature.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, had urged Trump not to pass the bill, noting his strong bipartisan support in Congress.
The Republican-led Senate voted 84 to 13 to pass the bill after it passed the Democratic-controlled House by 335 to 78 votes on Dec. 8 – both margins greater than the two-thirds needed to get over the main veto.
Trump had defied provisions in the annual defense policy bill that required his administration to report to Congress on potential threats to the national security of U.S.-designated Trump troops in Afghanistan, Korea. South and Germany.
The president opposes a preparation calling on the Pentagon to change the names of military bases for Allied veterans who fought in the U.S. Civil War.
“I have been clear against such political efforts to wash away history and undermine the great progress our country has been fighting in implementing the founding principles. Trump, in his veto message to the U.S. House of Commons, wrote.
I will put Veto on the Defense Bill, which will make China very unhappy. They like it. We must have the completion of Section 230, protect our National Monuments and allow weapons to be removed from distant, and very invaluable, land. Thank you! https://t.co/9rI08S5ofO
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 17 December 2020
Moreover, the president was unhappy that Congress did not repeal section 230 of the Communications Disputes Act of 1996, which protects social media companies from liability for content posted on the their platforms with users.
“Unless you end the dangerous national security threat posed by section 230, it will be almost impossible to carry our information without everyone knowing what we are doing at all. step, “Trump said.
During the debate on the floor of the house Monday, Rep. Adam Smith said the repeal of section 230 was not related to the legislation.
“The president blocked this because of something that is not in the bill, and was never going to be in the bill, something completely unrelated to national security, and something that we were not going to at least, “said Smith, Democratic chair of the House Arms Service Committee, who wrote the bill.
“There is literally no reason to suspend this bill for the reasons given by the President, and certainly there is no reason not to uphold what we have done in going through this bill, “said Smith.
Representative Mac Thornberry, the leading Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, urged his House Republican to get over the president’s beast. “I continue to support this bill, as have more than 80 percent of the House just 20 days ago. ” It is the very bill, not a changed comma, “said Thornberry.
Thornberry announced key provisions in the bill that provide “new tools” to deal with “highly aggressive China,” U.S. security support for Israel and new protections against computer harassment such as the “cyber attack”. destructive by Russia ”recently published.