Bill. Thats the bill that pays the salaries of the men and women in the armed forces and funds the Nations National security apparatus. The annual defense bill is typically passed with bipartisan support and a vetoproof majority. But trump vetoed the bill last week anyway in part because it called for renaming military bases named after the confederacy. Tonight the house overrode that veto by a vote of 32287. Mitch mcconnell says he expects the senate will vote to override the veto as well, which would officially pass the defense spending bill into law. The override process in the senate is set to begin tomorrow. More on that in a second. The house also passed a bill tonight introduced by democrats to expand direct payments to eligible americans as part of the sweeping covid relief bill that Congress Passed last week. Now, the bill would expand those payments from 600 for every adult to 2,000 per adult. More than twothirds of the house voted for it, but its chances in the Republicanled
Senate Republicans boycotted a Tuesday vote on President Joe Biden's nominees to fill vacant seats on the Federal Reserve Board, with GOP opposition coalescing around Sarah Bloom Raskin, the White House's pick for the Fed's vice chair for bank supervision.