How to Use line-item veto in a Sentence

line-item veto

noun
Definition of line-item vetonext
  • The governor can strike out portions of the bill through a line-item veto.
    — Nyamekye Daniel, Washington Examiner, 11 Feb. 2021
  • The spending plan then will go to Scott, who has line-item veto power.
    — Sun-Sentinel.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • The group is also trying to negate four of Evers’ line-item vetoes from this year’s budget bill.
    — Seth A. Richardson, cleveland.com, 1 Aug. 2019
  • The final product will go back to the governor, who has line-item veto power.
    — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Some state governors have a line-item veto; the Supreme Court has held the president can’t exercise one.
    — Josh Blackman, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2022
  • In 1997, President Bill Clinton made the first use of the historic line-item veto, rejecting three items in spending and tax bills.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2019
  • The lawsuit is the result of a single line-item veto Dunleavy made in a season of contentious budget cutting.
    — Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Nov. 2019
  • Today’s line-item veto debate goes back to Richard Nixon’s battle with Congress.
    — Andrew Rudalevige, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Evers can remove parts of their version of the budget using his line-item veto powers.
    — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2021
  • The union argued that the debt ceiling actually amounts to a line-item veto for the president to wield at his own discretion.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 24 May 2023
  • Teachers, meanwhile, called on Scott to use his line-item veto power to zero out the $67 million set aside for the program to train and arm school employees.
    — Brendan Farrington and Gary Fineout, chicagotribune.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Evers can then make changes with his line-item veto power before signing the two-year spending plan into law.
    — Scott Bauer and Harm Venhuizen, Chicago Tribune, 23 June 2023
  • There’s little evidence that a line-item veto would reduce deficits.
    — Andrew Rudalevige, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Brown notified Democratic leaders in the House and Senate of her line-item veto on Tuesday.
    — oregonlive, 16 June 2021
  • To attempt to get her way, she line-item vetoed a budget passed in the legislature with broad bipartisan...
    — WSJ, 25 Feb. 2020
  • After that, Youngkin can use his line-item veto, and the General Assembly will have to return to reconcile any changes.
    — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Walker last year used his line-item veto to cut the dividend — a move that the Alaska Supreme Court upheld in a unanimous decision last month.
    — Nathaniel Herz, Alaska Dispatch News, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Since 1998, Congress and presidents of both parties have made halting attempts at restoring the line-item veto.
    — David Weigel, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2018
  • Evers can then reshape it using his line-item veto powers.
    — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 May 2021
  • Scott can't veto individual items in the bill itself, but does have line-item veto power with the budget.
    — CBS News, 9 Mar. 2018
  • But a future court order, and an old law, could change that The governor has line-item veto authority on budget bills.
    — Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Abbott has even threatened a line-item veto that would deny pay to legislators and their staff members.
    — Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 3 June 2021
  • Abbott later used his line-item veto to strike a $132 million rehabilitation of the site from the state budget.
    — Madison Iszler, ExpressNews.com, 16 July 2019
  • Brown, who wields the power to line-item veto budget bills, unveiled her own 10-point plan on Tuesday with fewer details than her Democratic peers.
    — Tim Gruver, Washington Examiner, 29 Mar. 2021
  • In signing the budget Thursday morning, DeWine also issued 25 line-item vetoes, most of which were health-care related.
    — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland.com, 18 July 2019
  • The governor has frequently used line-item veto powers to shrink the state budget but has rarely vetoed policy bills.
    — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 25 July 2023
  • Republicans introduced the tax repeal as a bill to prevent Evers from using his broad line-item veto power to make changes to it, Stroebel said.
    — Scott Bauer, Star Tribune, 23 June 2021
  • There was no immediate word on when Snyder, who has line-item veto power on budget bills, would sign the budget bills and announce any vetoes.
    — Kathleen Gray, Detroit Free Press, 12 June 2018
  • DeWine could use a line-item veto if the final version of the bill has language that would eliminate municipal broadband networks.
    — Cameron Fields, cleveland, 24 June 2021
  • Whitmer could use her line-item veto authority to strip the vaccine passport language from the Senate budget bill.
    — Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 13 May 2021

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