Us Election Saga: Congress Scrambles To Override Votes If Trump Vetoes.

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Us Election Saga: Congress Scrambles To Override Votes If Trump Vetoes.

By Rowlandgate.

Senate leaders are discussing holding an override vote of Trump’s possible veto of the annual defense bill on the morning of Sunday, January 3, before the outgoing 116th Congress expires and the incoming 117th Congress is sworn in at noon that day.

The timing, which is not finalized, would allow senators to avoid being brought back to Washington over the Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays to deal with the override, according to GOP aides. But it would also require careful planning to overcome any possible procedural delays by opponents of the bill that could disrupt it.

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“That would be my preference,” Senate Armed Services Chairman James Inhofe, a Republican from Oklahoma, told CNN about voting once senators have returned from their year-end recess.Republicans are still trying to convince Trump not to veto the poplar National Defense Authorization Act, which has become law for the last 59 consecutive years.

He opposes a provision requiring renaming of military bases named for Confederate leaders and wants a provision added to reform liability laws for social media companies like Twitter. Trump has until December 23 to veto the defense bill as he has threatened or to allow the measure to become law.

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Tuesday that Trump plans to veto the NDAA over objections beyond the absence of a Section 230 repeal, the social media liability law, though she didn’t say when.

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“He does still plan to veto the NDAA. I don’t have a timeline for you on that. But he does plan to veto it,” McEnany said during a White House press briefing.

House leaders have not settled on a plan for when they would override the veto but may do it before January 3 and therefore require members to return over the holidays, according to a Democratic aide.

Both the House and the Senate passed the annual defense authorization bill last week with wide bipartisan majorities, plenty to override a presidential veto.

Trump’s threat to veto the bill has drawn swift and sharp bipartisan pushback from lawmakers who have argued that Trump is using leverage over the troops to settle personal scores. Odogwublog.com

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Us Election Saga: Congress Scrambles To Override Votes If Trump Vetoes.

But the potential veto has left Republicans split over the issue.House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said his members will vote to sustain the President’s veto should the measure come back to the House, which could drop the initial 355 – 78-1 vote below the threshold to override the veto, meaning the outcome of the override vote is in question.

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