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Trump spent the week threatening to veto the annual defense bill, and on December 30 Congress moved to override him anyway. The fight turned what should have been a routine military-funding bill into a public humiliation, with Republicans breaking from him on a measure they usually treat as untouchable.
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Trump spent the week threatening to veto the annual defense bill, and on December 30 Congress moved to override him anyway. The fight turned what should have been a routine military-funding bill into a public humiliation, with Republicans breaking from him on a measure they usually treat as untouchable.
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Trump spent the week threatening to veto the annual defense bill, and on December 30 Congress moved to override him anyway. The fight turned what should have been a routine military-funding bill into a public humiliation, with Republicans breaking from him on a measure they usually treat as untouchable.
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