Place your bets now: will Bush veto ANY spending bill before his second and final term ends in 2009?
Bush has no line item veto power so his veto power is very limited.
Bush can't veto the budget without a line item veto power. To veto the budget because the dems blocked his spending cuts for medicare wouldn't make sense because without the budget being signed you get no cuts at all.
Bush doesn't veto bills because the bills he doesn't like he tells the conferences to get the bill spending down for him to sign it. He cut 88 billion from the cost the dems wanted in the highway bill. Our roads need help this bill needed to be signed. Republicans control the conferences so the bills he doesn't like don't ever get signed that is his silent veto.