President Donald Trump said Friday that he had signed the 2,232-page, $1.3 trillion spending bill that the House and Senate approved this week, funding the government through September and preventing an imminent shutdown. Trump called the bill a “ridiculous situation” while speaking at a White House press conference, pointing to a large stack of papers that represented the package. But he said he had decided against a veto because the bill boosts military spending. “As a matter of national security, I’ve signed this omnibus spending bill,” Trump said. There’s a lot of things we should have in the bill,” he added.

Source: Huffington Post March 23, 2018 17:38 UTC