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Posted: 2018-03-23T17:35:40Z | Updated: 2018-03-26T17:00:22Z

President Donald Trump said Friday that he had signed the 2,232-page, $1.3 trillion spending bill that the House and Senate approved this week , funding the government through September and preventing an imminent shutdown.

The announcement came hours after the president threatened to veto the bill because it did not provide enough funding for his border wall or a solution for immigrants brought to the country as children under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program.

Trump called the bill a ridiculous situation while speaking at a White House press conference, pointing to a large stack of papers that represented the package. But he said he had decided against a veto because the bill boosts military spending.

As a matter of national security, Ive signed this omnibus spending bill, Trump said.

Theres a lot of things Im unhappy about in this bill. Theres a lot of things we should have in the bill, he added. Ill say to Congress, I will never sign another bill like this again. Ill never do it again. Nobody read it. Its only hours old.