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Trump signs sweeping two-year budget deal
NY POST ^ | February 9, 2018 | AP

Posted on 02/09/2018 6:48:10 AM PST by COUNTrecount

Edited on 02/09/2018 7:27:14 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

Trump tweeted,

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky
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To: bert

Also, tell the kids, grandkids and great grand kids that while saddled with debt and on the verge of default that at least politics is art of the possible. Delusional? Nah I call that realist.


121 posted on 02/09/2018 1:13:05 PM PST by Jarhead9297
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To: Jarhead9297

Before the grandkids have to pay, inflation will wipe it out or reduce by half or more.


122 posted on 02/09/2018 1:17:03 PM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: palmer

The administration hopes to build 60 miles of new steel bollard fencing along the border with 2018 funding and an additional 64 miles with 2019 funding.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-budget-wall/trump-budget-to-include-3-billion-for-border-wall-official-idUSKBN1FT09M

So President Trump is requesting 7% of the complete wall in this two year budget deal. A complete wall of the entire border would be 1,827 miles long.


123 posted on 02/09/2018 1:28:20 PM PST by Nero Germanicus
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To: LeonardFMason
The reality is he loses House and Senate in 2018 with a Veto. I HATE it but that is a fact. We need to hold House and Senate or Trump will be made a Dead Man Walking. I have hopes for 1 or 2 more SC Justices.

That's probably about right ... despite what the cheerleaders say. I knew when he was elected he wasn't going to do all these things he talked about. No reflection on Trump but he just doesn't have the political power. He is politically isolated. He barely got the tax bill but the votes came through it was a big win. Trump lost on ObamaCare and now this. Well he can still issue EOs and nominate judges. Maybe we'll get another legislative win. We'll see.

124 posted on 02/09/2018 2:08:28 PM PST by plain talk
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To: Alberta's Child

What ‘tll everyone sees the infrastructure plan.


125 posted on 02/09/2018 2:31:06 PM PST by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, deport all illegals, abolish the DEA, IRS and ATF.)
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To: CodeToad

I believe that, unfortunately, you are completely correct.


126 posted on 02/09/2018 2:31:58 PM PST by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, deport all illegals, abolish the DEA, IRS and ATF.)
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To: wiseprince

And we hear over and over the promised to make Mexico pay for it. that is going to be up there with ‘read my lips, no new taxes’ in terms of something hung around a leader’s neck.


127 posted on 02/09/2018 2:33:14 PM PST by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, deport all illegals, abolish the DEA, IRS and ATF.)
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To: RedStateRocker

Wrong


128 posted on 02/09/2018 3:16:15 PM PST by wiseprince
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

The sad part is there’s WORSE out there.

I think we’re at 100 percent of GDP.

Isn’t Japan at 200 percent?

Isn’t China pretty high? I think 300 percent?

And they are supposed to be growing at a phenomenal rate all these years.

Could be wrong about China. Pretty sure about Japan.

But we’ll catch up :(


129 posted on 02/09/2018 4:12:57 PM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know saying Syrian rebels in anost back in Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: COUNTrecount
way to go president trump. you can go down in history as raising the debt ceiling right along with obama and bush.

no change on the sinking titanic. just the shuffling of the deck chairs.

130 posted on 02/09/2018 6:33:21 PM PST by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it, but ready to go again)
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To: gspurlock
What about the wall???

quiet peon.

america's business will need the cheapest labor it can find so the border will remain open until further notice

131 posted on 02/09/2018 6:36:04 PM PST by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it, but ready to go again)
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To: COUNTrecount

Everybody needs to get a grip. Remember what Reagan said about deficits? Here’s a quick review:
https://townhall.com/columnists/richlowry/2003/05/13/the-deficit-is-big-enough-to-take-care-of-itself-n1180140


132 posted on 02/09/2018 7:05:50 PM PST by confederatecarpetbag
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To: OIFVeteran

What I want is the budget balanced and the debt reduced.


What I want is the debt repudiated, because it can never be paid. Attempts to pay down the debt would make the 2020s look worse than the 1930s and lead to a Hugo Chavez or Bernie Sanders style dictatorship.

Yes, it will cause all the banks to fail. Puerto Rico will repudiate. Venezuela will repudiate. Europe and Japan will repudiate. China will repudiate. For each country, the only question is when. Some time between now and 2037, we will have a mess. A mess is better than $100 trillion Federal Reserve Notes to buy a loaf of bread in the morning, and $500 trillion in the afternoon.


133 posted on 02/09/2018 11:16:28 PM PST by bIlluminati (Defund the Left. Shrink the U.S. Federal government to 1897 levels.)
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To: SkyPilot

2019


134 posted on 02/10/2018 2:09:53 AM PST by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: canuck_conservative

This was not a victory. It was a McConnell sell out:

See:

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3630955/posts

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“Mcconnell makes deal not to kill Obamacare with the Dems.”

McConnell Bows to Schumer: Budget Contains No Reconciliation Instructions for Obamacare Repeal

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
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135 posted on 02/10/2018 2:47:55 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: COUNTrecount

And we go deeper in debt which will never be paid off. I feel sorry for my grand children, 15 decades from now.


136 posted on 02/10/2018 10:07:49 AM PST by RetiredArmy (We are in the Last Days of human history. Jesus is coming back, & soon! Do U know Him?)
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To: ripnbang

That’s crazy. In the Middle East everyone hates us except for Israel. Why should any of these America hating countries get one dime from us?


137 posted on 02/10/2018 4:22:51 PM PST by semax
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To: elpadre

Trump did not run on cutting spending. He said he wanted to increase Defense spending bigly.


138 posted on 02/11/2018 2:12:48 AM PST by SaraJohnson ( Whites must sue for racism. It's pay day.)
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To: gspurlock

yep, take 10 Billion from defense and build the wall, it is just as important


139 posted on 02/11/2018 7:34:50 AM PST by aces
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To: Cheerio

Convention of states needed


140 posted on 02/11/2018 7:35:27 AM PST by aces
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