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U.S. Senate passes $740 billion defense bill, bucking Trump on Confederate names
Reuters via MSN ^
| 7/23/20
| Patricia Zengerle
Posted on 07/23/2020 1:39:06 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed its version of the National Defense Authorization Act, a $740 billion bill setting policy for the Pentagon that President Donald Trump has threatened to veto over a provision removing Confederate names from military bases.
The vote was 86-14, one of the few times the Republican-led Senate has broken from the president, and could pave the way for a fight later this year with the White House.
The Senate and Democratic-led House of Representatives each passed versions of the bill, known as the NDAA, with far more than the two-thirds majorities needed to override a veto.
The House bill also voted to include a provision to change the names of military facilities named after generals who fought on the pro-slavery side during the Civil War 155 years ago.
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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: confederate; culturalrevolution; defense; trump; usefulidiots
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Ball's in Trump's court now.
To: DoodleDawg
That’s veto proof, so goodbye Fort Bragg.
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posted on
07/23/2020 1:40:44 PM PDT
by
Buckeye McFrog
(Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
To: DoodleDawg
P.W.’d Pubbies don’t want their cars keyed.
Who were the brave 14?
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posted on
07/23/2020 1:41:28 PM PDT
by
elcid1970
("Pres. Trump doesn't wear glasses. That's because he's got 2020.")
To: Buckeye McFrog
That’s veto proof, so goodbye Fort Bragg. It would appear so. How any Freepers as recent as a few days said this couldn't happen is mind-boggling.
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posted on
07/23/2020 1:42:32 PM PDT
by
CatOwner
To: DoodleDawg
Veto it .
Or your reelection suffers a serious BLOW.
Time for Trump WH action to match the Rhetoric .
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posted on
07/23/2020 1:43:10 PM PDT
by
ncalburt
(Gop DC Globalists .)
To: DoodleDawg
Attaching that crap to this funding bill really makes the case for line item veto.
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posted on
07/23/2020 1:43:32 PM PDT
by
lgjhn23
(Libs are a virus.....the DemoVirus!!)
To: DoodleDawg
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posted on
07/23/2020 1:43:33 PM PDT
by
Theoria
(I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
To: DoodleDawg
You know i sometimes feel like the evil macabre POS congress have more power then the president!! DC NEEDS TO LITERALLY BE BURNED DOWN!! These EFFIN people are EFFIN EVIIIIILLL!!
To: Buckeye McFrog
That’s veto proof, so goodbye Fort Bragg.
_______________________________________________
Force them to override his veto. Let’s see who does it.
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posted on
07/23/2020 1:44:33 PM PDT
by
Bishop_Malachi
(Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
To: DoodleDawg
Fort Trump, Fort Flynn, Fort Melania,etc...
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posted on
07/23/2020 1:45:27 PM PDT
by
Mark
(Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? -Homer Simpson)
To: DoodleDawg
Veto it. Make these d’bags get on the record when they override it.
To: Bishop_Malachi
Yeah that is what Trump has to rely on now. A game of chicken.
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posted on
07/23/2020 1:46:05 PM PDT
by
Buckeye McFrog
(Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
To: DoodleDawg
China Mitch should lose his seat for this treasonous act .
Let him lose in Kentucky .
We may lose the Senate with this vote.
Kiss NC good bye .
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posted on
07/23/2020 1:46:28 PM PDT
by
ncalburt
(Gop DC Globalists .)
To: RoseofTexas
It is Congress who has stolen our money and ruined our country. Time for a makeover
To: CatOwner
It would appear so. How any Freepers as recent as a few days said this couldn't happen is mind-boggling.
They'd rename it after Ru Paul if that what it took to start distributing $740 billion to their cronies.
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posted on
07/23/2020 1:47:36 PM PDT
by
Buckeye McFrog
(Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
To: Bishop_Malachi
Exactly.
China Mitch may have lost the Senate with this utter devious actions against Trump.
Hope Mitch loses too .
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posted on
07/23/2020 1:48:15 PM PDT
by
ncalburt
(Gop DC Globalists .)
To: ncalburt
I think that’s the plan. Republican Senators intend to override Trump’s veto, signalling their alignment with the cause and their ability to resist Trump’s will, if necessary. I don’t doubt this is theater to allow Republicans to express their independence and sympathies.
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posted on
07/23/2020 1:48:29 PM PDT
by
Sgt_Schultze
(When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
To: DoodleDawg
Who were the gopee’s that voted for this?
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posted on
07/23/2020 1:48:31 PM PDT
by
Dacula
To: Dacula
Where can I find the vote?
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posted on
07/23/2020 1:49:45 PM PDT
by
Dacula
To: DoodleDawg
What I want is a “by name list” of how every Southern GOP Senator voted, so that I can make sure to NEVER send those turncoats another dime.
Yours, TMN78247
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posted on
07/23/2020 1:50:11 PM PDT
by
TMN78247
("VICTORY or DEATH", William Barrett Travis, LtCol, comdt., Fortress of the Alamo, Bejar, F'by 241836)
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