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  • lawmakers on Monday will seek to override President Donald Trump's recent veto of a $740 billion defense bill.

  • If successful, this will be the first veto override of Trump's presidency.

  • Trump, who spent the last few days golfing at his private club in West Palm Beach, said he vetoed the bipartisan defense policy bill, which has passed every year since 1961 because he did not want to rename military bases that are currently named for Confederate generals.

  • And he wanted an unrelated item that would eliminate liability protections for social media companies to be added to the bill.

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  • Two soldiers pay toe how to address geopolitical threats.

  • With less than a month left in office, Trump is angry that some Republicans have acknowledged his lost to Democrat Joe Biden in the November 3rd election.

  • I'm asking Congress to amend this bill, which may also help explain why, at the last minute Trump demanded dramatic changes to a $2.3 trillion package that funds the federal government and provides nearly $900 million in coronavirus aid including much larger stimulus checks to Americans.

  • But then he signed the bill, as is on Sunday.

  • Despite that, Democratic lawmakers in the House who have long wanted $2000 relief checks hope to use a rare point of agreement with Trump to advance the proposal in a vote on Monday.

  • But many of Trump's fellow Republicans, who control the Senate, opposed the effort, and Trump may not have the influence to budge them.

lawmakers on Monday will seek to override President Donald Trump's recent veto of a $740 billion defense bill.

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