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The President does have veto power, meaning Congress initiates the use of the purse string, but cannot enact it into law, without either a POTUS signature or veto override requiring far more votes to do so than this or any future Congress will ever have.
No one has control when they need another branches' ok.
Trump should not sign a CR he is not 100% on board with.
Yep, you are right about veto power, but that's not what has happened, is it? He's never even gotten a bill on his desk yet to sign or to veto as the Constitution lays out because he knows he doesn't have the votes in either House to get what he wants. So he is attempting to circumvent the Constitution instead.
Yep, you are right about veto power, but that's not what has happened, is it? He's never even gotten a bill on his desk yet to sign or to veto as the Constitution lays out because he knows he doesn't have the votes in either House to get what he wants. So he is attempting to circumvent the Constitution instead.
Senate isn't gonna vote, as they know Congress cannot override a veto. That is their decision to make. JM rules, just as NP does, just as POTUS Donald J. Trump does.
The ball is in House court to submit bill to Senate which will not require a veto override.
But it's not symbolic. It doesn't have TRUMP on the top of it and he probably can't make as much money or political hay from it.
Trump is not a rational, productive or efficient person. If you start out with that fact you will have an easier time understanding why he does everything the hard way.
I would compare Trump to an employee I fired. There were two reasons, but #2 was really the kicker.
1. Every time he would go on sales trips and calls he would come back with promises "they are gonna buy in a month after...blah blah".
2. He was helping to run the assembly plant (small) when not on the road and one day I did a QC check on the appliances that were being made. The units I inspected had "leg bolts" which were too short....so they only caught by one thread turn. The result would be HOT 300lb items falling over when used inside a house (think freestanding wood stove)....
When I asked him why he was using short bolts, his answer was "we ran out of the longer and these were all they had at the hardware store".
I think this sums up Donald perfectly. Promises made and not kept and lack of ability to accomplish basic tasks.
Yep, you are right about veto power, but that's not what has happened, is it? He's never even gotten a bill on his desk yet to sign or to veto as the Constitution lays out because he knows he doesn't have the votes in either House to get what he wants. So he is attempting to circumvent the Constitution instead.
"I have a pen and a phone.".
Who said that? Trump?
Nope - it was Barack Obama
All presidents try to get done what they can get done.
Senate isn't gonna vote, as they know Congress cannot override a veto. That is their decision to make. JM rules, just as NP does, just as POTUS Donald J. Trump does.
The ball is in House court to submit bill to Senate which will not require a veto override.
Happy 3oth Shutdown Day, all.
Not true. It's up to the House to present a bill (which they have many times). It's up to the Senate and Trump then if they sign, or don't sign, it's up to the people to decide what to do from there.
It seems a martial law was on his wish list and Trump didn't deliver.
Either way, his amnesty offer is being rejected from both sides.
He can still deliver on it. There is no time limit. It remains one of his options since Democrats have no interest in negotiating. He won't declare Martial Law. He may declare an emergency. They are different.
There is no way to retroactively crawl into the head of each voter and know why each one pulled the particular proverbial lever that he or she did.
No but with continual comments of how in sync Russia and the Trump campaign were in and continual pushes by the Trump administration bowing and caving to Putin's will shows that they did help Trump. Whether it worked or not to sway votes is a different story, but Russia did help Trump if even to delegitimize the U.S. Presidency and not just because they like Trump.
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