Posted on 02/09/2018 6:48:10 AM PST by COUNTrecount
Edited on 02/09/2018 7:27:14 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Trump tweeted,
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
The Funding Deal Trump Reached with the Democrats is a Good Deal
As many of you probably know by now, Trump inked a deal with the Democrats yesterday to fund the government. What’s in the deal?
The deal would raise the spending caps by about $300 billion over two years. The limit on military spending would be increased by $80 billion in the current fiscal year and $85 billion in the next year, which begins Oct. 1. The limit on nondefense spending would increase by $63 billion this year and $68 billion next year.
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From the increase in domestic spending, Mr. Schumer said the deal includes $20 billion for infrastructure, $6 billion for the opioid crisis and mental health, $5.8 billion for child care and $4 billion for veterans hospitals and clinics. It also includes almost $90 billion in disaster relief in response to last year’s hurricanes and wildfires.
The agreement includes an additional four-year extension of funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program, on top of the six-year extension that Congress approved last month.
The deal also lifts the debt limit until March 2019, pushing any future confrontation over that issue until after the midterm elections. The Congressional Budget Office recently projected that the Treasury would probably run out of cash in the first half of March if the limit were not raised.
Schumer got rolled… AGAIN.
Let’s be clear, the Democrat strategy was and always has been to tie amnesty to continue funding the government. The Democrats believed that Republicans would quickly cave due to a reflexive fear of shutdown showdowns, plus they had the belief that Republicans would be pressured by things like the need to raise the debt ceiling or risk national default.
This strategy now lies in ruins. The Democrats imploded during the shutdown, trapped between people who want to take Trump’s compromise and fund the wall, and rabid SJWs who want immediate full amnesty and voting rights for all illegal aliens currently in the country, as well as permanent open borders.
Realizing the damage the shutdown was doing to the Democrats, Schumer gave up and voted to end it. Several days ago, I wrote an article analyzing what appeared to be a further cave-in that was signalled by Dick Durbin. It now appears that information from the Daily Wire was correct, as the Democrats have folded on DACA.
What did Schumer get for selling out his constituency on one of their most important core issues? He got a few billion thrown at Puerto Rico and a few more billion thrown into infrastructure. This is a fig leaf, a way for Schumer to say “Look guys, I got something!” when he in fact got peanuts.
If you doubt my thinking, note the hysterical rage from the left over the deal. These are not people who are acting like they think they are big winners.
DACA and funding the government is now decoupled. In order for DACA amnesty to pass, a separate, lone immigration bill will have to make its way through the House and the Senate and then be signed by Trump. How likely do you think amnesty is to make it through? How likely do you think Schumer is to agree to fund Trump’s wall?
The amnesty supporters have no leverage left and they know it. Amnesty could not pass when government funding was held hostage; how likely is it to pass now? The only two possible outcomes were the Democrats signing onto Trump’s deal, or no deal was reached and the “Dreamers” end up as deportees. It looks like we are going to be deporting DACA recipients shortly.
Isn’t it about time Trump’s doubters gave him a little credit? Many panicked over tax reform; many panicked over DACA; and many people are now complaining that “Well, he’s winning on DACA but it’s not good enough because Schumer got a fig leaf!” Cheer up folks; he’s defeated the Democrats and earned significant victories for us three times in a row now!
Oh my, a Freeper that actually understands finance and economics!! You are spot on.
I can live with it. There’s no doubt in my Military Mind that PDJT has something else lined up to quash the Dems and DACA. I’m resigned to all the spending on both sides, but lots of people that are much smarter than me, seem to think a revved up economy is going to help pay it down...or bring it back to even, at least. *SHRUG*
And...didn’t Nancy Pelosi just spend EIGHT HOURS DEFENDING illegal immigrants and putting them BEFORE Americans and other LEGAL immigrants? Why, yes! Yes. She. Did.
Those optics/pull quotes WILL be used by PDJT and others in the future. They’ve cut their own throats on their way over the cliff, LOL!
MAGA!
From what I’ve seen Trump likes a deal. Doesn’t seem to matter what the deal is though. He’ll sign it. He has made a few requirements but as long as those are in it he’ll sign anything. Because it’s a deal.
“Trump is doing just FINE so far. (WAAAAAYYYYY better than fine), give him a chance. This is ONLY the FIRST year.
Myself, I will reassess after FOUR (4) years. I am VERY optimistic.”
Agreed! MAGA!
good point
a strong growing US economy can easily dwarf the (rather large and growing ) deficit
thats what Trump is banking on
I think hes right
look at whats happening already in year 1
Two steps forward, one step back.
Dang, man, in the Revolutionary War it was a whole bunch of steps back before we took any steps forward.
Trump is only a step.
WE must keep our eyes on the prize even if others do not. ULTIMATE MAGA: RESTORING OUR FREE CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC.
Many steps forward to go.
So far, after 40 years of listening to the lampshades, the world has not ended.
Besides, if our loans get called, cut the welfare to pay for it.
i agree. the goal is to get some people elected where he doesnt have to fight a dozen or so people in his own party holding the wall hostage.
problem is they lie to get elected then turn “enlightened”
And he accepted a deal that contained ZERO DOLLARS for the Wall.
Read #89
“Trump is only a step.”
I hate to take issue with you, but Trump is way more than a step. Without Trump, there would have been a continuation of the RAT/Commie Slide of this country into at best, a European Socialist State. Trump should be considered THE LYNCHPIN not just a STEP.
SMH
#81
That will have to be separate legislation.
The line item veto does seem to be a violation of the separation of powers making the President a legislator through the power of omission.
Yes, Revolutionary War was epic.
You mention a whole bunch of backward steps, but there was the notable battle of Trenton, plus many small ones, within the sea of British victories. Even small positive steps has the function of maintaining the spirits to campaign onward.
Trump is a very important and significant step but Trump is not our goal. Our goal is the restoration of our Free Constitutional Republic and whatever it takes to get there which includes dismantling the unconstitutional 80% of the federal government (so much for budget problems).
We must do what we can to get the right people in government and 2024 looms LARGE in that respect. But ultimately, our reliance is not on man but “on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land” (Lincoln, 1861 Inaugural Address). God is with us in the freedom fight.
Yup. Until Trenton, our strategy was “RETREAT” “RUN FOR YOUR LIVES...” Our rag-tag militia-army was all but done for and BUT FOR the Divine Providence of God Almighty, they would have been done for.
We must have the same reliance on the Divine Providence of God Almighty who is for us in this fight today.
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