US President Donald Trump on December 13 threatened to veto the Defense Spending Bill dispatched by the senate with a veto-proof margin of 84-13 after it made to the US commander-in-chief’s desk. Citing China as the ‘biggest winner’ of the USD 740 million defense bill which additionally seeks to ramp down the US troops pulling out of Afghanistan, Trump warned that he would block the legislation passed by the congress. “The biggest winner of our new defense bill is China, I will veto,” Trump tweeted. While the Republican-controlled Senate passed the bill, the Democrats approved the bill by 335-78 vote, passing the bill with more than 2-3rd majority that overrides US President’s veto. Meanwhile, Trump could veto the bill within 10 days or it will automatically become the law.
Earlier, the US president had launched tweets, saying, that will block the bill if it was sent to his table without repealing section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The section provides immunity to the social media giants such as Facebook and Twitter to regulate content from third-party publishers. In the bill, Trump had also cited objections about renaming the US military bases for Confederate military officers.
