Thomas Paine

‏ @Thomas1774Paine

2h2 hours ago

GOP looks like they want to lose seats … maybe force impeachment of Trump. That's a big reason for #omnibus … to perhaps anger Trump voters. Or we're dealing with absolute morons running the GOP. Or both.

Omnibus Bill and POTUS options

Mr Trump must sign the bill by midnight on Friday night. (3/23) If he doesn’t, the government will close.

www.yahoo.com/news/congress-races-pass-1-3-160600319.html

Potus options:

"After Congress sends the president a final bill, he has 10 days to act on it in one of two ways:

Sign it into law. If he doesn’t want to sign it but doesn’t want to veto it, he can simply ignore it and it becomes law in ten days (excepting Sundays) while Congress is in session.

…

The president can veto a bill in two ways:

• The return veto: The return veto mechanism is a straightforward provision in the Constitution. The president simply refuses to sign the legislation into law and sends it back to Congress with a message explaining why the legislation wasn’t signed.

• The pocket veto: In a pocket veto, the president neither vetoes a bill nor signs it — but if Congress adjourns during the 10-day period when the president has the bill, the bill doesn’t become law. In other words, the president puts the bill in his pocket, waits out the Congress, and nothing happens."

http:// www.dummies.com/education/politics-government/getting-the-presidents-signature-on-a-congressional-bill/

What is really dumb is this is a 6 month spending bill.