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President Donald Trump held a news conference Friday where announced he had signed a $1.3 trillion spending bill, just hours after he said he would veto it — but he openly expressed his disapproval, saying he only signed it at as a matter of security_ --- Jul 27, 2023 11:41 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [House Approves Immigration Bill, Despite White House Veto Threat](/video/FBVKrG8r/) ### House Approves Immigration Bill, Despite White House Veto Threat [Congress Just Averted Another Government Shutdown With a $1.3 Trillion Budget Bill](/video/sQ5HjTuR/) ### Congress Just Averted Another Government Shutdown With a $1.3 Trillion Budget Bill [House Votes to Avert Government Shutdown](/video/zd36wwdi/) ### House Votes to Avert Government Shutdown --- ## Transcript As a matter of national security I've signed omnibus budget bill. There are a lot of things I'm unhappy about in this bill. There are a lot of things that we shouldn't have had in this bill but we were, in a sense, forced if we want to build our military, we were forced to have. There are some things that we should have in the bill. But I say to Congress I will never sign another bill like this again. I'm not going to do it again. Nobody read it, it's only hours old, some people don't even know what 1. 3 trillion dollars, it's the second largest ever. President Obama signed one that was actually larger. Which I'm sure he wasn't too happy with either. But in this case it became so big because we need to take care of our military, and because the Democrats who don't belive in that add things that they wanted in order to get their votes. We look at the beetle, I look very seriously at The veto. 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