As President Trump threatened to veto the massive spending bill earlier on Friday, he brushed off warnings from aides that he might be blamed for a government shutdown as he headed to spend the weekend at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
“Fuck that,” Trump said in response to aides that cautioned him, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Trump ended up signing the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill Friday afternoon, although he vocalized his dissatisfaction with the price tag and said he would “never sign another bill like this again.”
“My highest duty is to keep America safe,” Trump said. “Therefore, as a matter of national security, I’ve signed this omnibus bill.”
“There are a lot of things I’m not happy about in this bill. There are a lot of things we should not have had in this bill,” he said.
Even so, the spending bill includes $1.6 billion to jump-start building Trump’s long-discussed border wall.
