President Donald Trump’s threat to veto everything that a possibly Democratic-run Congress might send him next year is igniting a debate in the opposition party as it contemplates a legislative agenda in a divided Washington.
The Republican president, who has spent his 11 years in national politics touting deal-making chops he contends are rooted in his business and real estate career, revealed Friday he views his veto pen as leverage. But that does not mean it would automatically overcome his lame-duck status.