Trump: I’ll veto defense bill to keep Confederate base names
By ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is vowing to veto a massive defense bill to keep military bases such as Ft. Bragg named after Confederate officers. He’s going against sentiment in his own party and imperiling a 3% pay raise for the troops. Trump took to Twitter late Tuesday to threaten a veto of a $741 billion annual Pentagon authorization bill because is would require a host of military bases named after Confederate figure to be renamed within. three years. Trump rival Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., won a bipartisan vote in a GOP-controlled panel to force the bases to be renamed and it’s clear that opponents of the idea don’t have the votes to remove it during floor debate.