1st LD: Trump threatens to veto massive spending bill
Xinhua,March 23, 2018 Adjust font size:
WASHINGTON, March 23 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to veto the 1.3-trillion-U.S.-dollar spending bill just passed by Congress.
Trump tweeted that he was considering the move as 800,000 recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program "have been totally abandoned by Democrats" and his long-promised border wall "is not fully funded."
The bill was approved early Friday in the Senate, following its passage through the House on Thursday.
The White House had said Thursday that Trump would sign it because it "funds his priorities."
The federal government will be shut down at midnight unless the bill, which features big increases in both military and non-defense spending, is signed. Enditem