What I hoped the president would do was veto the Omnibus, shut the government down for several days and force Congress to send him the normal, traditional 12 Appropriations Bills which would have meant a separate Bill for National Defense. That would have moved him as close to a line-item veto as he could get.
Not possible. Congress critters had enough votes to override the veto, which would make Trump look bad from both angles.
Is that before or after they over rode his veto which they had the votes to do?