I am not thrilled by these vetoes. It looks bad because both had unanimous support in both House and Senate, a degree of support that is rare in today’s polarized atmosphere. It’s also pretty clear that his motivation is retaliatory in both cases, in one case related to the Miccosukee Tribe in Florida, which has opposed a detention center being built in their region, and in the other case related to a spat he seems to have with Boebert because the one project would benefit Boebert’s constituency.
This contrasts with Trump’s use of the veto in his first term, in which he vetoed a major defense spending bill for fiscal reasons, something that I thought was a good idea and that I was hoping to see more of.
I also don’t like the whole building of detention centers to begin with. It seems a massive waste of taxpayer funds. I don’t understand why we can’t spend the money instead on the court system and whatever resources law enforcement needs to gather good evidence to use in court proceedings, so that we can expedite proceedings and either deport or release people ASAP. Detaining people so much that you need to build more detention centers seems really wasteful. Especially when there are so many cases of people being held in these centers for weeks; that is unacceptable both because of the waste, and because it’s cruel to people who are wrongly detained, which has included some US citizens. He is picking and choosing the wrong battle here.
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Two great vetos that evidently don’t have the actual support that the OP thinks they have.
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I am not thrilled by these vetoes. It looks bad because both had unanimous support in both House and Senate, a degree of support that is rare in today’s polarized atmosphere. It’s also pretty clear that his motivation is retaliatory in both cases, in one case related to the Miccosukee Tribe in Florida, which has opposed a detention center being built in their region, and in the other case related to a spat he seems to have with Boebert because the one project would benefit Boebert’s constituency.
This contrasts with Trump’s use of the veto in his first term, in which he vetoed a major defense spending bill for fiscal reasons, something that I thought was a good idea and that I was hoping to see more of.
I also don’t like the whole building of detention centers to begin with. It seems a massive waste of taxpayer funds. I don’t understand why we can’t spend the money instead on the court system and whatever resources law enforcement needs to gather good evidence to use in court proceedings, so that we can expedite proceedings and either deport or release people ASAP. Detaining people so much that you need to build more detention centers seems really wasteful. Especially when there are so many cases of people being held in these centers for weeks; that is unacceptable both because of the waste, and because it’s cruel to people who are wrongly detained, which has included some US citizens. He is picking and choosing the wrong battle here.
Two great vetos that evidently don’t have the actual support that the OP thinks they have.