According to the tradition already established in the United States, they tried to legalize sanctions against the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline together with the military budget. Only this time the President vetoed the bill.
The bipartisan document has been adopted without hindrance from year to year for decades. That is why it was used to impose sanctions. But Donald Trump chose to follow through on his threats by becoming the first U.S. president to block the military budget.
The head of the White House explained his decision by the fact that the bill is “a gift for China and Russia”.
In practice, Trump was not satisfied with the absence in the document of a clause that canceled the legal responsibility of social networks for information posted there. He also opposed the renaming of military bases, which bear the names of the leaders of the Confederation, prescribed in the bill, and the slowdown in the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, South Korea and Germany.