The hiring of Ambassador John Bolton is connected to the increase in defense spending. He will be an asset to the upcoming efforts to de-nuclearize Iran and North Korea. Also, our dealings with China and Russia will be important. A strong military footprint will be necessary for the military juggling act ahead.
So, if Trump would have vetoed the budget bill, he would have risked having the Democrats back down from the military increases if other issues were pressed. Have a few things changed in the months ahead: the line item veto, the filibuster, and the wall funding. Let DACA hang from the Democrats’ neck like an albatross. A war is not won in one day.
Bolton's big-government globalism in the 1990s and 2000s was the biggest reason why Yeb Bush was less popular than ISIS among Republican primary voters in 2016.