Trump vetoes colossal $740 billion defense bill, breaking with Republican-led Senate

What was his reasoning?

MAJ James Woods The president wrote in his announcement that the NDAA “fails to include critical national security measures, includes provisions that fail to respect our veterans and our military’s history, and contradicts efforts by my Administration to put America first in our national security and foreign policy actions.” He wrote that is was a “‘gift’ to China and Russia.” (RELATED: Why Trump Is Linking 230 Reform To The Defense Authorization)
“Section 230 facilitates the spread of foreign disinformation online, which is a serious threat to our national security and election integrity,” he wrote Wednesday. “It must be repealed.”

On renaming bases named after Confederate figures, Trump claimed that those “locations have taken on significance to the American story and those who have helped write it that far transcends their namesakes.”

Trump finally noted that the current NDAA “arbitrarily” caps the amount of military construction funds to be used in the event of a national emergency, like coronavirus, and limits his own personal goals of a wide-ranging troop withdrawal from America’s various foreign engagements. Neither item had previously been mentioned as a specific redline by the president nor White House.

Congress is expected to override the president’s veto sometime after Christmas recess. It will be the first time the Legislative Branch has used that power during Trump’s presidency.

CSM Charles Hayden In otherwords, he’s against the renaming of military bases named after Confederate leaders. Not a good reason to veto a bill. It doesn’t meet all the national security measures this go around but again not a reason to veto the bill. Section 230 doesn’t facilitate the spread of foreign disinformation. It does the opposite. Hmmm caps the amount of military construction funds? Oh it stops diverting military construction funding to building the border wall. Yeah, read between the lines. None of these issues are worth delaying defense funding and putting current military operations and national security at risk. Not to mention it has nothing to do with coronavirus pandemic response. That’s a separate bill and overall issue from a failure to respond for the last 11 months. For a man who made campaign promises to withdrawal forces from unpopular war zones, he waited for the final month of his term to make it a budgetary issue? Yeah right. Hahaha! At the end of the day, it’s all talk to try and look good going out.

They do when it comes to blocking $2k stimulus payments to average Americans. They’ll fund corporate interests all day long so as long as the NDAA guarantees funding to defense contracts they’ll override the veto.

Hahaha! So McConnell is now a RINO. HILARIOUS!

He's always been a RINO, I've called him out several times on this website.