It turns out, yes, and that’s why these are illegal. But if you argue that vetoing a bill means vetoing every line of it, then vetoing almost every line is a w

It turns out, yes, and that’s why these are illegal. But if you argue that vetoing a bill means vetoing every line of it, then vetoing almost every line is a weaker process—like “I can’t carry this whole pile up the stairs, so I’ll carry a few things up at a time” becomes “I can’t reject this whole bill, so I’ll reject just part of it”. But as we see, that argument doesn’t really hold up.