This afternoon the Senate voted to overturn the President’s veto of HR 6395, the FY 2021 NDAA by a vote of 81 to 13. The House voted to override the veto on Monday. With the Senate’s action today, this is the first successful veto override of the Trump presidency.
Interestingly, neither Republican Senator from Georgia
(Perdue or Loeffler) voted on the measure today. I suppose that could be
excused since they are both in the final days of their election-runoff
campaign. I expect, however, that the failure to vote to sustain the veto (an important
vote for so many military families and businesses around the many military bases
in Georgia) is more about not getting the President angry at them. This runoff
election (final day of voting is Tuesday) is going to be about which side gets
out the most voters and an angry Trump could keep Republicans away from the polls
on Tuesday (and like in November, most Republicans are not early voting).
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I think the President is supposed to help them in their election bids, they abstained to prevent his being upset as you mention.
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