[central_va]

The budget watchers at FreedomWorks estimate that when hurricane disaster relief, funding for the border wall, added Obamacare money for the bankrupt insurance markets, and other last-minute spending "emergencies" are thrown in the mix, the two-year spending blitz could exceed $300 billion.

The partisan anti-wall douche nozzle throws wall funding in there like it is a big expense. The cost of a wall over 4 or 5 years is around $4B per year and hardly even a budgetary rounding error and shouldn't be included in that list. Stopped ready this BS right there.

[buckalfa]

Deficit? Why worry? The market is up while taxes and unemployment is low. Hey kick the default can down the road. Happy days are here again !!!! Sarcasm /

[Paulie]

I don’t hear much about repairing our crumbling and outdated infrastructure anymore. Are our roads and bridges and airports and electric grid really in need of repair, or is this all a ruse?

0bamacare was never - and will never be - repealed, despite the fact it was designed to not only cripple the economy, but to all but eliminate the middle class. Does anyone care?

Tax cuts and deregulation will take us only so far, and 0bamacare will eventually outstrip those benefits.

[Steamburg]

Those pikers! The Democrats only care about spending when they aren’t in charge. $216 billion is less than a quarter of a Trillion and the economy isn’t even shrinking. Get over it. Just think of the votes that could be purchased with twice that amount.

[IndispensableDestiny]

The House passed an omnibus appropriation for FY18 on 9/14/2017. See HR 3354. The House also passed a supplemental appropriation for "Disaster Assistance for Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria and 2017 Wildfires," HR 4667.

The Senate hasn't acted on either. McConnell should bring those bills to the floor right about now.