President Trump’s threat to veto the next “omnibus” spending bill is putting real pressure on Congress, for the first time in years, to reform a legislative spending process that has become so completely dysfunctional, few believe it can be fixed anytime soon.

But Congress may have no choice now that Trump has put them on notice.

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