Why Trump wants us to know he signed a bad bill
by Emily Jashinsky
| March 23, 2018 03:30 PM
President Trump just signed a bill he hates, and he isn't hiding it.
Scrambling to prevent a government shutdown before 12:01 Saturday morning, leaders on Capitol Hill negotiated an omnibus spending bill this week that drew the ire of conservatives. The president seemed to share those sentiments.
In a news conference on Friday afternoon, Trump announced he would not be following through on his veto threats and had begrudgingly signed the legislation into law.
But he didn't like it one bit.
“As a matter of national security, I’ve signed this omnibus budget bill," a dour Trump said from the White House. "There are a lot of things I’m unhappy about in this bill."
Addressing Congress, the president vowed to "never sign another bill like this again.â€
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