Fergasun Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 NDAA is the National Defense Authorization Act. After a tumultuous 4 years of passing the Federal Government budgets, which included the longest Federal government shutdown in history Donald Trump has one more of these spending bills that may be, in Trump fashion, more interesting than every other President. Although defense funding (via continuing resolution) is included in the current omnibus spending bill (with COVID package), the NDAA gives the Defense Department a chance to prioritize and fund towards yearly priorities. Trump has promised to veto the bill, which passed the House and Senate about a week ago. He has until 12/23 to veto or it becomes law. His reasons include, issues with section 230 (tech company censorship), China (bill is too weak) and issues with removing Confederate names from miliary bases (why is this worth fighting against?). If he does veto it, this could set up the first time the House and Senate override his veto. The bill did pass with "veto proof" (more than 66 percent) margin; however, some Republicans (notably House minority leader Kevin McCarthy and Senator Lindsey Graham) have undicated they would vote to sustain Trump's veto. Additionally, some Dems who voted against it could vote to override his veto. This would be an amusing, "I voted for the bill before I voted against it" type of hypocrisy for the Republicans and potential "I voted against the bill before I voted for it" for the Democrats. I can't imagine legislators would believe overriding a Trump veto would register beyond next month, even among the most ardant of Trump supporters... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fergasun Posted December 23, 2020 Author Share Posted December 23, 2020 15 hours into the day and no veto yet... he is prolly so focussed on the COVID bill no one wants to remind him he has 9 hours to veto the bill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TradeTheBeal! Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 I believe the Veto is in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadySkinsFan Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 House returning on December 28th for veto override vote, Senate on December 29th. I hope one of the first things Biden's DoD does is change the Confederate names of all installations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 The American people really clamoring for Section 230 repeal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fergasun Posted December 28, 2020 Author Share Posted December 28, 2020 Today is the big day... should be the last major legislative action with Trump and Congress. Gotta believe if the House overrides the veto, the Senate will follow. What will be interesting is if House GOP treat this as a Trump election referendum... House convenes at 2 PM eastern and votes around 5 PM... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatBuzz Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 Edit: Nevermind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fergasun Posted December 29, 2020 Author Share Posted December 29, 2020 House just overrode the veto... needed 287 and they got 320 votes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 Cucked by congress. Expect some mean tweets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PleaseBlitz Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 The list of Senators that didn’t vote is interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hersh Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 So this overrides mean the US is renaming military bases currently named after Confederate generals? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fergasun Posted January 1, 2021 Author Share Posted January 1, 2021 Can't tell if you mean voted NO or didn't vote. Didn't vote could be Senators physcially absent... sometimes they will actually be absent in pairs (ie. if a Rep is absent a Dem will also abstain...). I already know the Ds that are against were pushing for stimulus and they voted against large defense spending. The Rs against are against endless wars (Rand Paul) and also against defense spending. It wouldn't surprise me if Lee, Cotton, Rand and Kennedy (LA) voted no on all the NDAAs. @Hersh Yes... renaming Confederate based is in the bill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PleaseBlitz Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 32 minutes ago, Fergasun said: Can't tell if you mean voted NO or didn't vote. Didnt vote. It’s the 2 GA Sens, who are campaigning/quarantined, plus Tom Cotton, Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, Doug Jones Cory Gardner and Ben Sasse. The first 3 are cowards who are retaining their seat and probably afraid to go against Trump, can’t figure out the other 3, esp Sasse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinsmarydu Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 Senate has to vote in person, right? I hope Sasse and Jones just couldn't get there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 It also means Trump can't continue to hide behind shell companies, which was his real concern in vetoing the bill. Quote The legislation, hammered out by progressive Democrats, conservative Republicans and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, would require millions of business entities to reveal their owners to the federal government in an attempt to deter the use of anonymous shell companies by criminals evading anti-money laundering rules. Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fergasun Posted January 1, 2021 Author Share Posted January 1, 2021 If they don't vote they may put an explanation in the Congressional Record... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PleaseBlitz Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 10 minutes ago, Fergasun said: If they don't vote they may put an explanation in the Congressional Record... I’m sure they’ll be forthright and honest, as is their practice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 Did it include Skippy's two poison pills? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatBuzz Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 9 minutes ago, Larry said: Did it include Skippy's two poison pills? That wasn’t for the NDAA. That was for the COVID relief. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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