The president can refuse to approve a law by issuing a veto. Franklin D. Roosevelt holds the record for issuing the most vetoes with 635.
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He can but he needs Congress to make that, since Congress makes laws they will have to vote yes and the president of course has the final say around, or they can outvote the presidents decline.
All. Presidents do not pass budgets. Congress does.
The president's ability to kill a bill by holding it for ten days while Congress is not in session is called a pocket veto. This occurs when the president does not sign the bill into law and also does not return it to Congress with objections within the ten-day period. As a result, the bill does not become law and is effectively vetoed.
A president can veto a bill that the congress passes and sends to him for his signature and he can refuse to sign it (vetoing it). But the president cannot override vetos. The congress can override president's veto by a 2/3 vote.
After a bill has been vetoed it has the choice of either being brought back by a 2/3 majority vote from the senate to override the Presidents veto. Either that or the president goes and sux a dick