Posted on 02/07/2018 10:58:33 AM PST by DoodleDawg
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced on the Senate floor Wednesday afternoon that a deal had been reached to fund the government for 2 years, which includes raising military spending but excludes a DACA provision.
Why it matters: The budget lifts sequestration caps, increasing discretionary spending by $300 billion over two years. The deal extends CHIP for 10 years instead of two and includes disaster relief and opioid response funding.
I think he’ll sign it. The fight over the border wall will continue and I’m resigned to the fact that our POTUS and a growing majority of voters do want some sort of border wall that will not be realized during Trumps first or second term. It’s the poison fruit of his promises. Dems and Reps do not want it.
As I have posted over and over— McConnell has just announced a daca only vote !! You can not make this up~!! That BASTARD!! They need only 9 rino votes!!! How could he have destroyed the leverage for the wall and real immigration reform?? I warned and warned of this sell out. Trump must immediately announce veto!!
I think he’s waiting for an opinion from the USSC on DACA. It will either give him more or less leverage.
There will be NO SECOND term without the WALL— NONE!! Shut down the damned non essential government but we shall have that WALL!!
DACA is history; Trump ended that by executive order last year. The grace period he allowed ends next month.
Your Mama’s calling. NOOB.
I would suspect it might be acceptable to Trump simply because he still has the DACA leverage, but who knows? Anything that comes out of the Senate I see with more than a little skepticism
OMG , Just pass a Yearly Budget ,don’t you remember what that was
This prevents another government shutdown. There is no immigration issues in it unless sleazy Schumer snuck something in it. I see they increased CHIP funding for more years.
I like that it gets rid of Sequestration in Military funding.
So much for getting the deficit under control.
DACA is being separated out....and any vote will be when they work out an IMMIGRATION deal. Same thing he has said many, many times.
He promised Chucky this vote to start the government back up. It won’t pass in the House and Trump won’t sign it.
IIRC, It took Obama years to pass a real budget...he lived off CR's for years.
That "vote" is in the future.....not any time soon.
It’s only money. Your grandkids money that is ...
We’ll know pols are serious about the budget when baseline budgeting is repealed.
Until then...Feh.
“IIRC, It took Obama years to pass a real budget...he lived off CR’s for years. “
That was intentional ... it was either porkulus or the bailout money that was renewed each year w/o a vote. Actually, I think it was both come to think of it ... both bailouts and porkulus would have been added to Bush’s last budget.
I don’t see the Repub’s either complaining or explaining this to people, so you know it’s completely intentional at this point.
The clean DACA bill that Schumer was promised a vote on? That vote is in the future? I don’t see that passing in the House.
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