Go listen again. He approved it to make the deal, “you gotta give the Democrats something”. He then put a positive spin on it, in all fairness they got hit too. The Democrats wanted this. To me it was one of his best moments. He gets it, if he thinks the deal is fine and he wants it; it makes very little sense to kill it over this even if you think it’s garbage and completely unnecessary.
Unfortunately, that is 100% the philosophy that encouraged the Left to throw the entire Leftist Kitchen Sink into that bill. Everything from tampons to performance art center bailouts.
Note I am not flaming you on this. This is the Left doing business as business is done in Washington. It burns me that they do business like this in a crisis. Precisely why they did it. If it were only $25 million there, I wouldn't like it and have to accept it.
But it isn't. I'll bet there are tens to hundreds of billions of dollars in that bill that don't need to be there.
"Ten billion here...ten billion there...pretty soon you're talking real money."
Well, at least I didn't say "a trillion here...a trillion there".
Yet.
This is why The President of The United States should have a line item veto.