How to Use line-item veto in a Sentence

line-item veto

noun
  • 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 power would include a line-item veto for the city’s budget.
    — Daniel Borenstein, Mercury News, 19 May 2026
  • There’s little evidence that a line-item veto would reduce deficits.
    — Andrew Rudalevige, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2018
  • The final product will go back to the governor, who has line-item veto power.
    — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024
  • There are no line-item vetoes of bills where certain programs can be eliminated.
    — Gary Franks, Hartford Courant, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Carter's statement did not say whether the mayor would use his line-item veto authority.
    — Kyle Stokes, Axios, 12 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • This measure relates to cash transfers, and Little made two line-item vetoes in that bill.
    — Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Evers can remove parts of their version of the budget using his line-item veto powers.
    — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Beshear made several line-item vetoes to the bill that address minor errors of language in the bill.
    — Rebecca Grapevine, The Courier-Journal, 29 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • Kehoe has the authority to line-item veto pieces of spending in the budget.
    — Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 11 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Today’s line-item veto debate goes back to Richard Nixon’s battle with Congress.
    — Andrew Rudalevige, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2018
  • That number refers to bills Evers vetoed in their entirety, versus line-item vetoes made to parts of the state budget.
    — Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 31 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The bill will now head to the Governor, who can make additional line-item vetoes of specific budget items.
    — Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 7 May 2026
  • Carter issued a statement after the vote that did not eliminate the possibility of a full veto or line-item veto.
    — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 11 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • DeSantis said his line-item vetoes will boost the state’s budget surplus to $17 billion, money the state will need if there’s a killer storm this season.
    — Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Boards, Orlando Sentinel, 16 June 2024
  • But the council eventually agreed to remove that funding as part of a final compromise after Gloria used his line-item veto.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026

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