Article snippet: MORE on Friday signed a $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill, averting a government shutdown just hours after he created drama and uncertainty by threatening a veto. Trump blasted the measure as “ridiculous,” in large part because it contained only a fraction of the money he asked for a wall along the Mexican border and did not include a fix for young immigrants covered by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program he spiked last year. But the president begrudgingly signed the bill, citing the reversal of military spending cuts that he said put the nation “at really grave risk.” “There are a lot of things that 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 to if we want to build our military,” the president said during an impromptu event at the White House. “My highest duty is to keep America safe,” he added. “Nothing more important.” Trump, who has frequently been frustrated in working with Congress on spending bills and has surprised Democrats and Republicans alike with some of his tactics, vowed that he would not sign a similar bill going forward. “I say to Congress, I will never sign another bill like this again,” he said. “I'm not going to do it again. Nobody read it. It’s only hours old. Some people don't even know what’s in it.” The president called on Congress to give him the power to make line-item vetoes on all government spending bills and called on th... Link to the full article to read more