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“Lane No. 1, at this point, is the president comes to his senses,” Mr. Smith said in an interview. “Lane No. 2 is we get as strong a vote as possible and we override.”

“I think we get a two-thirds vote in the House and the Senate and we get it done,” he added.

Kayleigh McEnany, the White House press secretary, said on Wednesday that the president “is serious” about the veto.

“The president will always defend our military, ensure that we get adequate defense funding, as he’s gotten $2.9 trillion so far,” Ms. McEnany said, “but he is going to put the pressure on Congress to step up on this.”

At least one Republican, Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, who sits on the Armed Services Committee and opposed the base-renaming amendment, deriding it as “woke fundamentalism,” said he would vote against the final bill.

Using the abbreviation for the bill, the National Defense Authorization Act, Mr. Hawley wrote on Twitter: “The NDAA does NOT contain any reform to Section 230 but DOES contain Elizabeth Warren’s social engineering amendment to unilaterally rename bases & war memorials w/ no public input or process.”

But Mr. Smith said that after initially digging in over the base-renaming language amid a national outcry for racial justice, Mr. Trump appeared to have lost interest in the issue.

“He got distracted, and the basic strength of the other side of the argument won the day,” Mr. Smith said. “It’s also possible that the president and the people around him realized this was not a fight that they wanted to have.”