How, exactly, does a President “strip language” from a bill submitted to him?
A presdient can either sign or veto a bill. The line-item veto was ruled unconsitutional in 1998; not that the Constitution means anything to this guy.
I think the article is poorly written. The author meant to say, “the president will seek to get his minions in Congress to strip the language added to the bill in the House out of the bill in the Senate” or something to that effect. The idea is that he will “strip it out” by twisting arms of Democrats in Congress, not that he would or could unilaterally strip it out of a bill passed by Congress and awaiting his signature.
They author left out the secondary agent(s) of the action of the verb “strip.”