captain_spalding said:

diddly-squat said:

SCIENCE said:

he can though

100% – the POTUS has veto power over every single piece of legislation that passes through congress.

Yeah, he veto every bill that they pass to him.

But, there’s rules:

Key constraints include:

No Line-Item Veto: The President must accept or reject a bill in its entirety; they cannot strike specific provisions. The Supreme Court ruled the line-item veto unconstitutional in Clinton v. City of New York (1998).

Time Limits: The President has 10 days (excluding Sundays) to act on a bill. If Congress is in session and the President takes no action, the bill automatically becomes law.

Pocket Veto Restrictions: A “pocket veto” (where the bill dies due to inaction while Congress is adjourned) is absolute and cannot be overridden, but its use is limited to periods of final adjournment (sine die). Courts have ruled that Presidents cannot use pocket vetoes during short intra-session recesses if Congress has appointed an officer to receive veto messages.

Written Objections: For a regular veto, the President must return the bill to the originating chamber with a written memorandum of disapproval explaining the objections.

Non-Legislative Limits: The veto power applies only to congressional legislation; it cannot be used against constitutional amendments, impeachment proceedings, or federal judicial actions.

The written explanations from Trump’s office will be most interesting.

If he vetos everything, all the time, he will be doing the next GOP Presidential candidate no favours.

The Dems will have a legitimate case to say we tried to give you health care, we tried to give you welfare, we tried to restore justice, we tired to rein in ICE etc, but the Republican President said ‘no’ every time. Do you trust a new Republican President to do better for you?

Exactly.. keep trump in the White House and force him to do his job. Meanwhile the Dems will have control of virtually every major oversight committee in Congress and will be able to compel people to testify in their investigations.

The worst thing they could do would be to try and impeach Trump because it would just motivate calls of Democratic Lawfare.

The Dems need to be tactical in their approach to the next two years if they really want to seize the advantage.