President-elect Joe Biden’s digital team has taken issue with Twitter s decision to block Biden from inheriting President Trump’s followers on the platform – a practice at odds with previous presidential transitions. In 2016, the Trump admin absorbed all of President Obama s Twitter followers on @POTUS and @WhiteHouse at Team 44 s urging, Biden Digital Director Rob Flaherty said on Twitter Tuesday. In 2020, Twitter has informed us that as of right now the Biden administration will have to start from zero.
Flaherty later said the Biden team was told the move was unequivocal when they pushed back against the Twitter policy.
The House of Representatives late Monday evening voted to override President Donald Trump's veto of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). It is the first time during the Trump administration
Trump vetoes major defense bill, citing Section 230
Following through on his previous threat, President Trump has vetoed the $740 million National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a major bill that allocates military funds each year.
In tweets early this month, Trump said he would sink the NDAA if it wasn’t altered to include language “terminating” Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, an essential and previously obscure internet law that the president has had in his crosshairs for the better part of the year.
“Your failure to terminate the very dangerous national security risk of Section 230 will make our intelligence virtually impossible to conduct without everyone knowing what we are doing at every step,” Trump said in a statement on the veto. It’s not clear what the president meant, or what he was referring to in criticizing the military funding bill as a ” ‘gift’ to China and Russia.”
Senate Armed Services Committee member Kevin Cramer R-ND., joins Fox Report with insight.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell remained on the Senate floor into the wee small hours of the morning Tuesday long after the Senate passed the $900 billion pandemic relief package and urged President Trump not to make good on his threat to veto the defense spending bill, but prepared the Senate s response.
Earlier this month, the GOP-controlled Senate approved the $740 billion national defense bill despite Trump’s veto threat. Trump wants any National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to include the repeal of Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act.