His highest duty us to protect the Constitution AND America. By signing this monstrous bill he has betrayed BOTH, as well as his strongest constituents.
Ted Cruz, are you running in 2020?
This bill was a total betrayal and Trump signed it with a whimper. It is astonishing Ryan would screw us this bad, l know he is a piece of shit but this defies belief that he would this degree of disregard for his party’s voters. My faith in Trump is reduced significantly. I don’t know if he comes back from this.
The first duty of the president is to defend us from foreign enemies. This is the military Trump inherited...
Army: Of 58 total brigade combat teams (the Army’s main combat building block), only three are considered ready for combat.
•Navy: The Navy’s fleet is the smallest it has been in nearly 100 years. This makes ship repairs harder to complete, as those vessels are needed on the waterways.
•Marine Corps: Eighty percent of Marine aviation units do not have even the minimum number of aircraft they need for training and basic operations.
•Air Force: The Air Force is the smallest and, in terms of many of its aircraft, oldest it has ever been. The service had 8,600 aircraft in 1991 while today it only has 5,500, and those aircraft are an average of 27 years old. Worse, fewer than half of those aircraft are prepared to take on and defeat our adversaries.
When Mattis told him without this money he can’t defend us, he had little choice but to swallow the rest of the crap to get money to rebuild the military. It’s easy to criticize when it’s not your responsibility.