Trump Signs Budget To Avoid US Government Shutdown
Sumaira FH Published March 23, 2018 | 11:04 PM
US President Donald Trump said Friday he had signed a compromise budget deal adopted by Congress despite being "unhappy" with many of its provisions thereby averting what would have been the third government shutdown of 2018.
Washington, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 23rd Mar, 2018 ) :US President Donald Trump said Friday he had signed a compromise budget deal adopted by Congress despite being "unhappy" with many of its provisions thereby averting what would have been the third government shutdown of 2018.
"As a matter of national security, I've signed this omnibus budget bill," Trump said in a statement from the White House, hours after tweeting a threat to veto the measure. "There are a lot of things I'm unhappy about in this bill. There are a lot of things we shouldn't have had in this bill but we were, in a sense, forced (to have) if we want to build our military," he added.
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