Posted on 07/24/2020 11:47:26 AM PDT by conservative98
President Trump signaled expectations that a provision to rename military bases named after Confederate leaders will not make the final version of the National Defense Authorization Act, despite the House and Senate overwhelmingly approving such defense legislation this week with veto-proof majorities.
Trump, who previously has threatened to veto legislation to rename such bases, tweeted Friday that he's found an ally in Sen. Jim Inhofe, who serves as chairman of the Armed Services Committee that manages the bill.
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I spoke to highly respected (Chairman) Senator @JimInhofe, who has informed me that he WILL NOT be changing the names of our great Military Bases and Forts, places from which we won two World Wars (and more!). Like me, Jim is not a believer in “Cancel Culture”.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 24, 2020
At least he found one ally in the Senate.
Hard to do as most of them are Bush League Republicans.
The Senate was throwing American history onto the Antifa bonfire, and now Inhofe is backing off. Great news!
I guess the Senate RINOs just wanted their chance to virtue-signal.
McConnell said he was open to it which was outrageous.
How the heck will Inhofe stop anything once passed, he won’t even have any power it they don’t hold the Senate. That’s really just BS, veto the bill.
Actually, except for three or so, all Republican senators have supported the President.
There are many sanctimonious anti Republican conservatives who have failed to learn or purposely forgotten that fact
As bad as things look now I don’t see what these RINOs caving to the leftist demands think this is going to buy them.
Whose votes are they trying to keep by giving in to terrorists demands?
If they give in and in and in and they still lose in November then what?
They still won’t admit that they were wrong.
Name them camp Donald, Camp Jared, Camp Don Jr, Camp Melania.... see if the libs like those names better.
Jim “Mountain” Inhofe is a pretty solid citizen.
remember back in the clintonista days when he survived an attempted arkancide in his airplane??
If that were true bert, why did he have to go around Congress to get the wall started?
Good
Fcuk GOPe cowards
Well that’s gonna piss off some folks.
The 60 votes were not there. False premise reflects poorly on your bias
“...why did he have to go around Congress to get the wall started?”
Funding comes from the House.
Rename McConnell and Graham!
Watching very closely. Keep what we have!!!
I could see the dems saying “fine ... then we’ll defund the military”.
It would be funny if they renamed Fort Lee as Fort Lee, for Light Horse Harry Lee.
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