Posted on 03/25/2018 9:08:24 PM PDT by Kaslin
Sure, Trump funding Abortion and every other Leftist enterprise, but not funding the Wall, is just OTA.
If the Omnibus bill is available for us now to view, maybe we should see what is really in it.
Trump: I will never sign another omnibus.
Trump: I will never recertify Iran deal.
Trump: Dreamers have to go.
Trump: I surround myself with the best people (do I really need to list the losers he has fired?)
It is. Go look at it.
As Vice President Pence reminded us, we need to elect more conservatives. That’s only we’ll get the government we want - and need.
Getting mad at President Trump accomplishes nothing. And Pelosi and Schumer will give us lots more than another omnibus - they will take away our freedoms.
Let’s keep our focus and fire where it belongs - on the Democrats and turncoat squishes in the GOP and send conservatives to Washington.
The fate of our country depends upon it.
Sorry but Trump made a disastrous mistake by signing this vile monstrosity. He has lost at least 1/3 of his core support and lost an opportunity to revitalize and redefine the Republican Party with a carefully crafted veto message. The people who came out in droves to vote for him in 2016 are now disillusioned and will stay home in 2018 and 2020. The vile Democrats will reacquire power and grave harm will come to the country. There is no sugarcoating this stupidity and its aftermath.
And for those who wish that he had vetoed it, need to realize what kind of all out HELL the MSM and all of those in Congress, not to mention the general public who hate him anyway would have made of that; not to mention a dilapidated/decimated/underfunded already military shambles that would have left this nation with.
We don't live in a dictatorship, nobody in D.C. would stand for what Obama got away with, if Trump followed suit/emulated him, and whilst we don't like most of the things we have been told are in this Bill, a Veto ( which would have been over ridden ! ) was the worst option; like it or not.
I agree with the author. I still like Trump, especially compared to Hillary!.
My understanding is that an omnibus bill is NOT a budget and the executive branch is not constrained to spend the money according to the bill’s suggestions.
” a Veto ( which would have been over ridden ! ) was the worst option; like it or not. “
Bullshit. He could have used it to expose the monstrosity of corruption we face, instead, he backed down.
Trump was elected to stop our homeland from becoming Mexico.
On that basis he has earned an “F”.
He has fought for nothing and let the Democrats write his agenda.
So, I'm thinking that maybe we should give him the benefit of the doubt.
He wants to build the wall. If he gets it built with this omnibus, then I am not gonna complain.
If people who supported him in '16, stay home this fall, in a substantial figure, then they are cutting of their collective nose to spite their face and are bloody stupid to boot!
That's opening the door to a Dem take over, impeachment and a Senate where, for the first time EVER, an impeached president WILL be thrown out of office; you can take that to the bank! And what then, a Pence presidency? Pence is worthless and if anyone imagines that he would follow Trump's stances, they need to be put away in an insane asylum.
We should have voted for Jeb.
He would be making the cleverest most cutting remarks
about how President Clinton was handling things!
What is the meaning and purpose of the President’s letter? A John Salisbury tweeted out this explanation. Could not find any MSM reference (of course not). The letter from the President is copied below with reference. For those who do have time, the conclusion of Mr. Salisbury . . . The President has basically told the house . . . See ya in court! For those who have given up, patriots all in the trenches, understand, North Korea has stood down, only the details follow. Up next is Iran. The President needs what he got from that bill to accomplish what is going to be confronted in the next 3 to 4 months. Hang on folks. Its show time In the meantime is this explanation correct? Freepers decide. John Salisbury account
Let's talk about what the President can and can't do for this Omnibus Bill. There's a lot of discussion both ways so let's examine how money gets allocated & spent in the US Government: 1. Congress allocates money to be spent. The President spends the allocated money. 2. Once Congress allocates money, their job is oversight of the money being spent. They don't spend the money and have no say HOW it gets spent as long as it's spent legally. That's their job to monitor with oversight. 3. Once the President is given the money with the instructions to spend it, he has a number of choices to make in spending it. There are some rules he has to follow & some of the money is fungible and some isn't. 4. However there are some other factors that are in play here. One of them is that the President has declared a Human Rights Emergency AND has notified Congress that he's invoking the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. NOTE: See Letter and Link below for reference of above statement. 5. This opens up new options. 6. By making these two declarations President Trump has just communicated that he has the authority to NOT spend any funds he doesn't deem necessary and will return them to the US Treasury. So, funds for Planned Parenthood? He can simply not allocate the funds 7. Also, these declarations make some funds fungible. For instance if he determines that building a Wall on the Southern Border is a defense against Human Trafficking? He can move funds from anywhere else in the Defense Dept Allocation & simply build the Wall.
8. Congress is powerless to stop cash reallocations on an omnibus bill AND cannot stop the DOD from taking measures under a declared Emergency. NOTE: In part the above statement needs to be challenged, 9. Despite their language in the Omnibus Bill about the Border Wall, it is trumped by the State of Emergency that Trump declared
8) (sic)So in summary - This will go to the Courts. Congress will sue the President over the Border Wall. But here's how it will play out - Congress and the President are co-equal branches with different functions. Congress allocates. The President spends. 9) (sic) The President has National Security as his Primary Responsibility and it's his job to use whatever funds and declarations he needs to for that job. No Court in this Nation (except corrupt on the take Judges) would EVER rule against a President for exercising that authority. 10) In the end the Supreme Court (yes, that's where it will end) will fully VALIDATE the President's Constitutional Authority & the Wall will be built. / Letter from President to Speaker of House You will have to find that letter. I am not good enough to do so.
You’re a political naif who doesn’t understand the ramifications of a Veto and then have that Veto over ridden; which it absolutely WOULD have been.
Trump wouldn’t have gotten a better deal if he had vetoed it.
The government would have been shutdown and Republicans would have been blamed for the fallout - women, children, seniors and minorities hardest hit.
No upside to a veto. Trump decided to put off the fight to another day. Sometimes you have to roll with the punches.
Its sucks and like I said, we need to elect more conservatives to bring about meaningful change.
In case every one forgets, the Democrat Deep State still effectively runs Washington.
Trump talks and talks and talks. But his actions and judgement are showing him to be weak.
Ryan and McConnell SCHEDULED the vote for one day before the anti-gun march so Trump could not let DC chaos occur with all park staff off work
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