The Democratic-controlled House voted 322 to 87 to override Trump's veto of the $740.5 billion defense bill with 109 members of the president's own Republican Party siding with Democrats. A similar motion will be introduced in the Republican-majority Senate, where it will also have to gain two-thirds support to override the president's veto. In a statement released after the vote, Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slammed Trump's veto as "reckless" and called on the president to "end his eleventh-hour campaign of chaos." Including the defense bill, Trump has vetoed nine bills during his four years in the White House. "If you insist on spending your final days in office threatening to burn it all down, that will be how you are remembered.

Source: Dhaka Tribune December 29, 2020 02:48 UTC