And also note, he would not be able to veto sections 1031 and 1032-which Congress passed and sent to him-without killing the entire NDAA bill. And that would have shut millions of people, including our troops, out of work for at laast several months and cause other kinds of chaos too.
“And also note, he would not be able to veto sections 1031 and 1032-which Congress passed and sent to him-without killing the entire NDAA bill.”
Not to comment on the merits of the bill, but this kind of reasoning is silly. Just because some politician finagles a clause into an essential bill doesn’t mean we should just pass it. If someone poisons the well, you don’t keep drinking out of it, you dig a new well.