Trump threatens to VETO $1.3 trillion federal spending bill because it ignores DACA recipients and funds only 33 new miles of his border wall
President says he is considering a veto of a massive spending bill that the Senate passed in the wee hours of the morning
Trump is angry that only 33 new miles of his border wall are funded
Also upset that Congress didn’t provide a fix for DACA recipients
White House said Thursday that he was looking forward to signing it
By DAVID MARTOSKO
DAILYMAIL.COM
23 March 2018
President Donald Trump threatened Friday to veto the $1.3 trillion spending measure that the Senate passed in the wee hours of the morning because it includes little money for his border wall and no solution for illegal immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.
White House budget director Mick Mulvaney said flatly Thursday afternoon that the president would sign it.
Refusing would plunge the nation into a government shutdown – the sixth since October.
‘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,’ Trump tweeted.
A half-hour earlier he wrote on Twitter that DACA, the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, ‘was abandoned by the Democrats. Very unfair to them! Would have been tied to desperately needed Wall.’
The White House send multiple signals on Thursday that the president was eager to ink his signature on the 2,200-page legislation.
‘All things considered, in the balance, the president supports the bill and looks forward to signing it,’ budget director Mick Mulvaney told reporters during a hastily assembled noontime briefing.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders proclaimed: ‘This bill is so important on many fronts, from school safety and troop funding to opioids and veterans care.’
Pressed a second time, Mulvaney answered ‘yes’ on Thursday when asked if Trump would sign the bill.
‘Why? Because it funds his priorities,’ he said.
The DACA issue has become Washington’s ultimate political hot potato, with both Democrats and Republicans trying to portray themselves as the party that cares for immigrants in visa purgatory.
Trump’s has complained repeatedly and publicly this month that Democrats abandoned them in the budget-cooking process.
But they have largely sat on their hands because the administration’s tactical move to administratively end DACA as leverage to get border security funding has been stopped in the courts.
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