The United States President Donald Trump reiterated his pledge on Sunday to veto a sweeping defense budget bill, the bill which US lawmakers passed by margins that allow them to override the president's rejection. Few weeks remaining in the White House to complete his Tenure Donald Trump has criticized the $740.5 billion measure in part because it does not abolish a law granting social media firms liability protection for third-party content on their platforms.
Trump has alleged social media giants like Facebook and Google are biased against him. He expressed his disapproval of the bill's language calling for renaming US military bases that honor commanders from the pro-slavery South in the Civil War. Trump said, "The biggest winner of our new defense bill is China. I will veto!" in a tweet. However, the bill was approved with well beyond the two-thirds "super-majority" needed to overcome a veto: 84-13 in the Republican-led Senate, and 335-78 in the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives.
The President's goes as his Pledge, the defense bill would be sent back to Congress where the lawmakers would have to approve it by a two-thirds majority to override the president but the bill is an important priority for few Republicans. Republican Senator Jim Inhofe, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, called it "the most important bill of the year." The defense bill demands the president slap sanctions on Turkey within 30 days for its acquisition of a Russian-made missile defense system which the President don't want against Turkey and its president Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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