US President Sign Unwilling Federal $1.3trillion Bill
The US President Donald Trump on Friday signed a $1.3 trillion
compromise federal spending bill despite being “unhappy” with many of
its provisions — thereby averting what would have been the third
government shutdown of 2018.
Trump said he signed the measure that had passed the Senate
just hours earlier “as a matter of national security,” because it
dramatically expands military funding and provides for “the largest pay
increase” for US troops in over a decade.
“There are a lot of things I’m unhappy about in this bill.
There are a lot of things we shouldn’t have had in this bill but we
were, in a sense, forced (to have) if we want to build our military,” he
said in a hastily arranged media event at the White House.
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