{"id":16996,"date":"2020-12-29T11:53:02","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T19:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=16996"},"modified":"2020-12-29T11:53:04","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T19:53:04","slug":"the-priorities-are-wrong-rep-ro-khanna-says-he-wont-vote-to-override-trump-veto-on-defense-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2020\/12\/29\/the-priorities-are-wrong-rep-ro-khanna-says-he-wont-vote-to-override-trump-veto-on-defense-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Priorities Are Wrong\u201d: Rep. Ro Khanna Says He Won\u2019t Vote to Override Trump Veto on Defense Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/embed\/story\/2020\/12\/28\/ro_khanna_defense_spending\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>DECEMBER 28, 2020 (democracynow.org)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/donate\">DONATE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">GUESTS<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/appearances\/ro_khanna\">Ro Khanna<\/a>Democratic congressmember from California.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">LINKS<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepRoKhanna\">Ro Khanna on Twitter<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Congress is set to override President Trump\u2019s veto of the National Defense Authorization Act, the $740 billion annual defense policy bill that funds the U.S. military. Trump vetoed the legislation last week over objections to liability protections for social media companies and because he did not want to rename military bases currently named for Confederate generals. Democratic Congressmember Ro Khanna says Trump\u2019s reasons for vetoing the bill are \u201cdisingenuous,\u201d but that he will not be voting to override the veto. \u201cThe bottom line is $740 billion is way too much defense spending,\u201d says Khanna. \u201cThe priorities are wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DECEMBER 28, 2020 (democracynow.org) This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today.DONATE GUESTS Ro KhannaDemocratic congressmember from California. LINKS Ro Khanna on Twitter Congress is set to override President Trump\u2019s veto of the National Defense Authorization Act, the $740 billion annual defense policy bill that funds the U.S&#8230;. <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2020\/12\/29\/the-priorities-are-wrong-rep-ro-khanna-says-he-wont-vote-to-override-trump-veto-on-defense-bill\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16997,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16996\/revisions\/16997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}