The US Congress overturned Trump’s veto on pre …

The US Congress dealt a blow to Donald Trump in his final weeks as White House leader by voting to remove the presidential veto on the defense budget, valued at $ 741 billion. The vote in the full Senate, with a Republican majority, marked the first time Congress overturns a Trump veto for almost four years he has been in power.

With 81 votes in favor and 13 against, the Senate comfortably exceeded the two-thirds majority it needed to overturn Trump’s veto and sign the defense budget into law. The House of Representatives, controlled by the Democrats, had already done its part last Monday with 322 votes in favor and 87 against.

Historic veto has escalated tension between incumbent president and his party leadership in the Senate, with whom he has already been confronted in recent days because the majority recognizes Joe Biden as president-elect, which Trump continues to disbelieve incredibly.

Last week, Trump had been withthrown in the first president in 59 years to oppose the passage of the defense budget. The National Defense Authorization Act is used to fund Pentagon operations overseas and includes salary increases for soldiers, funds to purchase new military equipment, and to ensure troop health care.