President Trump threatens to flush massive spending bill down the drain

DCNFRobert Donachie, DCNF

President Donald Trump tweeted Friday morning that he is considering vetoing the $1.3 trillion spending bill Congress passed early Friday morning.

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“I am considering a VETO of the Omnibus Spending Bill based on the fact that the 800,000 plus DACA recipients have been totally abandoned by the Democrats (not even mentioned in Bill) and the BORDER WALL, which is desperately needed for our National Defense, is not fully funded,” the president tweeted Friday.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/977166887493799936

The president claimed Democrats have left the roughly 800,000 young illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children, known as DREAMers, completely “abandoned.” Democrats shut down the government for a weekend in early February to try to secure legal protections and a pathway to citizenship for DREAMers, but ultimately caved and reopened the government the following Monday.

Trump is also upset that Republican leadership were only able to get him just over 1/25 of what he wanted for the construction of his long-promised border wall.

Lawmakers offered $1.57 billion for the construction of physical barriers along the southern U.S.-Mexico border. That funding would include only $641 million for 33 miles of new border wall security — under half of what the president asked Congress for previously. In total, Congress is providing grossly under the $25 billion the White House asked for construction of a border wall and enhanced border security.

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