And Mike Pompous did what exactly to introduce some semblance of conservatism into the notoriously liberal State Department?
Foggy Bottom laughed at him.
Stupid article.
Trump was hampered by THE RINO’s in Congress.
Congress controls the purse strings.
AND THIS LYING P.O.S. RINO KNOWS IT
There has not been a budget since they decided to run on ‘continuing resolutions’ under Obama...
Trump swore he would not sign another one after the first one, but the RINO’s in congress gave him no choice.
I’m not a huge Trump fan, but Trump was about as conservative as we could hope for after Bush I and Bush II, and the failed candidates in between like McCain and Romney. No candidate has been conservative on spending, period. The last one who came close was Ronald Reagan 40 years ago.
NOBODY in the “College of Cardinals” (Conservative Orthodoxy) believe Trump to be a conservative.
What they have forgotten is that Conservatism without Nationalism is like Faith without Works.
Making Trump the ONLY conservative in the race, and making THEM traitors to the American People.
Maybe not but he gets much more done that supposed conservatives
Common sense goes a long way these days
No one cares about this deficit crap. The fake conservative media have been the boy who cried wolf about this for decades and they’ve never been right.
It’s just another thing they use to manipulate true conservative Americans into voting for billionaire welfare checks.
2. The Republican Party completely shredded its credibility on all matters related to Federal fiscal policy after 2000 when our national debt nearly doubled during the GWB administration, and when Congress never stopped pissing away trillions of dollars at any time when it was controlled by the GOP.
What would he have done differently?
Excessive government spending is certainly the root cause of the economic crisis we are facing, but austerity is NOT a realistic short term solution, any more than starvation is a safe way to lose weight.
President Trump recognized that strong economic growth is essential to any safe landing from a hundred years of government excess. He also recognized that there is low hanging fruit to be harvested that could stimulate that growth.
Eliminating woke job-killing regulations.
Energy independence/dominance.
Border control.
America first trade agreements and policies.
Restoring competition and honesty to healthcare, education and media.
Only with a powerful economy can we hope to unravel the debt spiral we are caught in… because a strong economy lifts people out of poverty and government dependence - and automatically lowers entitlement obligations.
A strong economy and financial self-reliance is the key to shrinking the government, and that is what MAGA is all about.
There is nothing more conservative than Trump’s MAGA movement.
Pompeo is just wrong.
There is no conservative movement or conservative leaders out there. Just another flavor of Republican. There is no going back. America got sold out decades ago, now grift armies fight over scraps.
There is a simple answer for trump:
The trump tax cuts.
Those tax cuts now generate 5 trillion dollars a year in revenue. It was about 3.5 trillion in revenue when he took over.
That’s a huge boost in providing the ammunition to lower debt and deficit.
It absolutely is 125% congress’ fault. Pretending otherwise is anti constitutional.
Where does spending originate. Republican tax cuts have shaved trillions off a debt that truly would be much higher without them.
Nobody Likes Mike
2020 on your pic..
That’s when all those State Tyrants and Fedzilla and Health Tyrants said they didn’t have enough ___________, and people would die without it...
Ah, Good times.
For the Pfascists and the Swamp
Mike, which departments are you going to cut and which entitlements are you getting rod of? Please run on that. No doubt this fool voted for every debt increase. Trump shut the government down and had no support among Repukes
But they have to always keep creating more and more dollars to pay off old debts, including interest. As is often pointed out, more money is owed than is created by a loan.
I read the transcript of Pompeo’s speech to a group about 6 months ago. Totally globalist NWO.
No, he is not - but if he wins the nomination he has my vote for his Supreme Court picks alone. Alito and Thomas will both likely retire from the bench during the next presidential term.
You have to wonder what (and how much) former Trump supporters and Cabinet members are being offered to suddenly turn on Trump.
Also, the GOPe hasn’t mentioned how they plan to deal with the fact that millions of Trump supporters are not going to just fall in line and vote for the Romney or Bush candidate they select for us to vote for in 2024. They have joined the left in denigrating anyone who supports Trump, even to the point of calling us white supremacists, insurrectionists, etc. How do they plan to get us to the voting booth?
The fiscal conservatism ship sailed in 1992 - thirty years ago.