The threat of a veto was just to attract attention to him blathering, bragging, whining, declaiming, attacking Democrats and Obama for dreadfully weakening the military and for many other things, insisting the senate abolish the filibuster, demanding a line item veto, and so on and so on, and berating the congress - a Republican controlled congress - for not giving him exactly, everything, and only what he wants.
The Republican senate could kill the filibuster but doesn't want to.
A line item veto would require a constitutional amendment and make the presidency much stronger in the legislative process.
The constitution assigns the president the power to veto only whole bills.
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