Posted on 05/03/2017 11:21:52 AM PDT by blackbetty59
If this is the budget deal we get when Republicans control the House, the Senate and the presidency, there’s no point in ever voting for a Republican again.
Not only is there no funding for a wall, but — thanks to the deft negotiating skills of House Speaker Paul Ryan — the bill actually prohibits money from being spent on a wall.
At a CYA press conference on Tuesday, Trump’s ridiculously chipper budget director, Mick Mulvaney, described the bill’s prohibition on building a wall as a MAJOR win. (At least Mulvaney said it in English, unlike his all-Spanish 2014 townhall.)
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Mark Levin sure disputes it. He spent his entire show last night tearing it apart, line by line.
I can’t find information about when it was signed. How exactly is a continuing resolution passed? Everyone is acting like it is a done deal...is it? I’m not being sarcastic, I really want to know. Can a freeper please enlighten me on the process? I would be very grateful!
Every person who voted for those idiots need to call their representatives office and make it well known how MAD we deplorables are. I mean a mean, nasty, four letter word type phone call, the more of these calls, the sooner their reps will know we mean business.
Unfortunately for the voters, their representatives could care less what the voters think, they are in those cushy jobs for one reason and one reason only, to “earn”, meaning steal, as much as they can while there.
Yeah, blame the base conservative voter instead of the feckless cowards in the Republican party.
Shove it, RINO.
This was made much worse when Trumps people fanned out to spin this. It was a total betrayal and surrender to the Rats. They spit in Trumps and our face and instead of being angry and threatening a veto they go out and try to tell us we won. It’s an insult.
People can try and find bits in the budget but overall it is a big failure to implement Trump's vision and promises. Republicans in Congress did well, like after every recent election to toss aside promises and party to instead vote for the Democrat's shopping list. In Trump's words, "How stupid are we?"
For me, voting is like buying lotto tickets. That is, you can’t win if you don’t buy one, so I buy one.
But it probably won’t matter.
And none of them leave those cushy jobs as “poor” people, meaning they have amassed a fortune during their tenure due to fraud, stealing, pay offs/kickbacks and what ever other means they can conjure up. Who winds up paying for it? We all do
Pence may not be going on Limbaugh’s show for awhile.
-Trump signed more bills into law than any president in the first hundred days since Harry Truman............... -Thirteen different bills 'rolling back 'regulation' and red tape on businesses across this country................... -500,000 'jobs' have been created since the first of the year. .................... -Signed a bill 'into law' that ends the Obama-era regulation that blocks states from banning Planned Parenthood funding. (states can ban Planned Parenthood funding) (Note: the health care bill that comes up soon 'defunds Planned Parenthood' altogether).................. -$21 billion increase 'in defense' spending..the largest increase in military spending since the Reagan............. -Largest increase in 'border security' funding in 10 years, with enough, as the president said to make 'a down payment on a border wall'................. -Illegal immigration, border crossings, are down more than 60 percent................ -Removing criminal illegal immigrants from our streets, including these dangerous gang members and deporting them............. -China has ceased currency manipulation.............. -President Trump saved the high court from a hostile liberal takeover by appointing a conservative Supreem Court Judge Withdrew us from TPP................... -The Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines approved for construction and completion............ -Signed a monumental executive order requiring that for every new regulation written by federal agencies, two existing regulations must be cut................. -Abolition of the EPA’s Clean Power Plan and Waters of the United Sates rule................. -Reinstated the Mexico City Policy, which protects taxpayer dollars from funding abortion overseas............... -Ended catch and release............. -Untied the hands of our military and our police officers to do their jobs.......... Etc. etc. etc...........
Go to youtube and find Mulvaney’s press briefing from yesterday. As far as I know, it has not been signed yet by Trump. but all indications are that he will.
Holy pearl-clutching pansy, batman!
For later
Mulvaney was being disingenuous. The only part of the wall that was funded was to repair an existing stretch of fence which will be replaced by a 20 foot steel fence/wall. No new wall is being funded or built under this budget. Planned parenthood IS being funded. And Trump just agreed to continue the Obamacare subsidies a couple of weeks ago, so they didn’t have to put that in this budget. Out of a trillion dollars being spent, 21 billion for the military is small potatoes and is much less than Trump was saying is absolutely necessary for the military just a month ago.
Ann, you’re overreacting just a bit.
I don’t see how real conservative have not lost all hope for the future.
I lost it decades ago. It’s why I moved. And all this election did was prevent the RUSH to failure. It only slowed it down. And at this point, not by much.
What a lot of people don’t think about is that it is just possible that the people we elect do what they do because they actually have no choice. That the alternative that conservatives really want would cause complete and utter collapse and chaos because we simply do not have the financial/cultural ability to do it. So the system slides to its doom, with the brakes being constantly applied to the slide to at least slow down the inevitable.
i.e. “voluntarily” do what will become, in the end, involuntary. Kinda like what is happening in Venezuela.
Watch Bill Bonner on Youtube.
What some including Rush don’t seem to argue for that it’s an on going process. Is Trump moving the ball forward? Will Trump still be working on to get more done on the same issues? The answers of that are an unequivocal yes. Does some things we don’t want stay in place? Yes to that too. That’s called the status quo, which Trump is still trying to change whether that is 6 or 10 months or a year from now. Status quo is not losing ground. If Trump loses ground on issues than that’s a legitimate beef.
Under Bush, and as an example, who seemed to have trained some our thinking is that he wouldn’t keep on fighting on many issues. Bush would give a policy speech and then expect someone else in Congress to take up the ball. That’s called laziness or ambivalence or lip service to the base. His last two years in office he would sign almost anything that Pelosi and the Dems would send him. Bush also would not fight for the border fence in 2006 when he let Congress pull the funding where he remained silent on the issue. This is called retreat giving ground already fought and won, and letting the Dems bloat the government by trillions of dollars unfunded by tax payers.
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