President signed it because of the huge increase in defense spending - one of his top priorities.
He’s not happy with the bill but he felt didn’t have a choice.
The Pentagon and Vice President Pence said you know this is need so the President followed their advice in spite of his reservations.
They saw things the rest of us don’t know.
Sorry, but that’s not good enough. This was written hastily
Correct. The military increased are huge. Any more slippage to the right and there wouldn’t be enough time to execute against he one year appropriations. That funding would die, unlike other Dem favored appropriations which are no year and not time bound.
You may be right, but to most of us this was his Old Man Bush, read my lips moment. This was a setup for him to demoralize his base, and there’s no denying that this just happened. I’m really disappointed. I don’t think we can ever defeat the Deep State!
Trump is signaling this as a GoTo War bill. His focus on this is building the military back up to a wartime footing. He’s not happy with the rest of it, but keeps going back to the military aspect of it. That’s my take on it.
War with a belligerent nation state is over the near horizon. Probably starting with North Korea.