Don’t buy it.
A veto would have given time to examine the bill.
Some GOP Senators would have run for the tall grass
once they were exposed by the examination of the bill.
Thus reducing the likelihood of an over-ride.
The house passed appropriations bills 190ish days ago, the senate has failed its job. We already know the solution, drop kicking the omnibuss bill process and going back to traditional appropriations bills. Multiple Bills and multiple signings
I respectfully disagree with your assessment.
A Veto would have caused a Government Shutdown that would have been blamed on the Republican Congress and the Republican President.
While we here at FR know a Government Shutdown really isn’t, and that it is pretty meaningless, the average brainwashed, ignorant, and uneducated Voter does not. The poison in the Kool Aid has seeped into the Nationwide Municipal Water Supply.
The first narrative the Democrat and their Media sycophants would have been pointed out is that POTUS Trump Vetoed the Bill knowing full well that it would be overridden, so he just did it out of spite and his hatred for the American People. Do people here think that wouldn’t have happened?
I guarantee you that if the Bill had just scraped by, POTUS Trump would have worked on the weakest Supporters and gotten more of what he wanted before signing it.
This Bill, like it or not was as Bipartisan as they come and a lot of ignorant Voters think that’s a good thing.
All the handwringing would not change the simple fact that if the Hildebeast was Elected, and she would have been if any one of those running against Donald Trump had secured the GOP Nomination, we would be looking at a Liberal SCOTUS for the next 50 Years, Gun Confiscation and an America that would just as useless ant any European Union Country.
Do I like what happened with this Bill, hell no, but the alternative under a Democrat Regime would make the Legislation look like a pimple on Hillary’s Butt.
The People to blame are the weak Republican Congressional Swamp Dwellers. You go to War with the Army you have, and the GOP Politicians that should be supporting POTUS Trump and his Agenda have deserted him and us.