Oh my

The House voted on Monday to override President Trump’s veto of the annual military policy bill.

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The 322-to-87 vote is the first time a chamber of Congress has agreed to override one of Mr. Trump’s vetoes, underscoring the sweeping popularity of the military legislation, which authorizes a pay raise for the nation’s troops.

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Included in the military policy bill are a number of bipartisan measures, including new benefits for tens of thousands of Vietnam-era veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange, a 3 percent increase in pay for service members and a boost in hazardous duty incentive pay.

It would also take steps to slow or block Mr. Trump’s planned drawdown of American troops from Germany and Afghanistan, and would make it more difficult for the president to deploy military personnel to the southern border.

The legislation also directly addresses the protests for racial justice spurred over the summer by the killing of Black Americans, including George Floyd, at the hands of the police. It would require all federal officers enforcing crowd control at protests and demonstrations to identify themselves and their agencies. And it contains the bipartisan measure that directs the Pentagon to begin the process of renaming military bases named after Confederate leaders.

  NYT

Those were the two things Trump objected to. But that he was willing to veto a bill that provided for the troops surprised me.  If he still actually thought he could overturn the election, I bet he wouldn't have risked it.

Senior lawmakers shepherding the legislation had hoped that mustering a veto-proof majority in favor of it would cow Mr. Trump into signing the bill. Their willingness to mow over Mr. Trump’s objections to advance the measure was a stark departure from the deference the president has normally received on Capitol Hill.

Even the cowards know that withholding money for troops is a sure loser.

Lawmakers have tried — but failed — to override Mr. Trump’s vetoes of legislation cutting off arms sales to Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf nations, and a doomed attempt to overturn his emergency declaration at the southwestern border.

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The last time Congress overrode a presidential veto was in 2016, the final year of Barack Obama’s presidency, after he vetoed legislation allowing families of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to sue the government of Saudi Arabia.

Which should not have been overridden.

The margin surpassed the two-thirds majority needed to force enactment of the bill over Mr. Trump’s objections. The Senate, which must also get approval from two-thirds of its chamber, will take up the legislation later in the week.

But attempts to quickly pass it in the Senate could be complicated by Senator Bernie Sanders, independent of Vermont, who said on Monday that he would delay consideration of the military bill unless lawmakers voted on a separate bill — one that would increase the size of individual stimulus checks to $2,000.

Tight spot for the GOP. All they can do is blame Sanders for the delay, and I'm sure they will. 

 ...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE: