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In response to
"If Trump goes to Florida today without signing the bill, does it become law w/o his signature, or is it a pocket veto? -- nm"
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mara
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from the Post:
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4. Trump can pocket-veto the bill
This is the more passive way Trump could reject the spending/virus-relief legislation, and it wouldn’t give Congress a chance to fight back.
The president has 10 days, excluding Sundays, to decide whether to sign or veto legislation. If he does nothing at the end of those 10 days, normally the bill becomes law. Unless Congress goes out of session. Lawmakers can easily keep Congress in an informal session to prevent this. But this Congress also officially ends on Jan. 3. Depending on when Trump officially receives the legislation, he could hold on to it until Jan. 3, do nothing and wait until a new Congress starts, making the old Congress’s legislation dead. (Fox News’s Chad Pergram has a detailed Twitter thread on how this works if you want to get into the weeds.)
So Trump has a chance to deny Congress the opportunity to come back and override his veto with a scenario that doesn’t even require him to veto it.
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