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That sounds awful. Either a law should be passed so that the executive branch can enforce and make laws, or they should remove the Frankenstein veto.

When a party has the power to change it, they have little reason to; when they don't have the power to change it, their opinion doesn't matter.

Go back through the history of line-item vetoes. The arguments for are convincing until one considers the counterfactual.