After Threatening Veto, Trump Signs $1.3 Trillion Spending Bill

President Donald Trump speaks at The Generation Next event, a White House Forum featuring millennial voters and administration officials on March 22, 2018, in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington on March 22, 2018. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times

After briefly threatening to veto the $1.3 trillion government spending bill, President Donald Trump signed the measure on Friday, March 23. While lamenting the measure’s many flaws, the president said that it had to be signed in order to fund the military.

Trump warned lawmakers that he will never again sign a similar measure and blamed the Democrats for stuffing the budget with wasteful spending.