Sen. Grassley: Congress may override Trump veto on removing Confederate names from military bases

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

DES MOINES – A senior Republican senator and staunch ally of President Donald Trump said Monday that Congress would "probably override" a veto if the president decided to veto a Congressional plan to rename military bases named after Confederate leaders.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, made the comments Monday on a call with reporters when discussing an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would remove the names of Confederate leaders from military assets within three years.

Trump has threatened to veto the spending bill if it contains the amendment.

"I would hope he wouldn’t veto it just based on that," Grassley said of Trump.

Grassley raised the possibility that the issue of renaming bases could be considered separately from the full defense spending bill but said he believes Congress has the votes to override a presidential veto if it comes to that.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-sen-grassley-congress-may-override-trump-veto-on-removing-confederate-names-from-military-bases/ar-BB16pwHa?li=BBnb4R7&ocid=DELLDHP

Hope he's right but I am skeptical of anything Grassley says.

[soothsayer]

1. Well he's scared to go to the repub Covid party

Maybe he’s coming around

[smb]

2. Toddler Trump Is Threatening To Take The Whole Defense Budget Hostage Over This Nonsense

Even his lackeys in Congress are (mostly) unwilling to follow him that far.

[Under The Radar]

3. Grassley is still pissed about having his chairmanship on intelligence....

...committee taken from him and given to Lindsey Graham. He has been snapping at Trump and McConnell ever since. He has to get 19 republicans to go with him on this, I just think there aren’t enough that are brave enough to defy Trump.

[Takket]

4. there is a better chance of the Pope vetoing the Bible

[JDC]

15. Lol

[GulfCoast66]

5. Wow, this is getting interesting.

Trump seems to be defending the confederate cause more than Jefferson Davis did.

There is no bad ending for democrats in this.

He signs it and his racist base goes bat-shit crazy. Which combined with the Mississippi flag thing mean the are demoralized.

He vetoes it and it is over-ridden and the same result.

He vetoes it and it sticks and our troops don’t get paid because the president is defending confederates.

Win/win in my book.

He is real good at painting himself into a corner.

[Bev54]

6. How many times before have we heard that about Grassley or

Collins or Rand Paul and they all end up voting with Trump, none of them except Romney have any balls at all.

[Walleye]

7. I still like the name-Fort Medgar Evers

[spanone]

8. sure senator, sure

[rurallib]

13. don't hold your breath

[spanone]

14. that 'may' says it all

[hatrack]

9. Whatever, Chuckles . . .

Get back with us when it actually fucking happens.

Oh, and Chuck? Republicans overriding a presidential veto to guarantee that the military-industrial money pump never shuts down is about as remarkable as discovering fleas on a stray dog.

[SharonClark]

10. Grassley is a master at working the media

with his regular press meetings. Something Senator Tom Harkin never seemed to understand.

[rurallib]

12. Yep - he gets headlines about every Tuesday

[budkin]

11. Yeah right

No effing way they would even do that. All talk.