Backlash? Don’t they understand he’s playing 384D intergalactic ping pong?
Fencing? Just throw the money into a fireplace and watch it burn - just as effective.
In terms of procedure, is there anything in statutory law, which would prevent a follow-up piece of legislation next week?
In theory, the “Rand Paul Act of 2018” could itemize the most egregious domestic spending and foreign-aid pork-barrel items, and specifically repeal them with a GOP-majority house and 51-vote Senate vote?
Is that even possible? It would be popular to some.
Faux may also report that nobody even had a chance to read the 2000+ pages of this monstrosity before voting on it. Dozens of unelected and unaccountable staffers wrote it tainted with their own personal agendas!
Decidedly unAmerican and probably unConstitutional and illegal.
But faux news isn’t interested in the Constitution or the rights of the people or freedom or anything like that.
Does everybody understand the term “snookered”?
Because that is what just happened.
Wouldn’t have been possible if for once, Republicans would show some testicular fortitude and actually operate as a disciplined national party.
That is what happens when you try to herd cats.
These people are so stupid they don’t know the have been rolled by Trump once again!
I do not claim to have followed Congress’ Pork Bill all that closely.
But given the voting by Democrats and Republican Elites, did they have enough votes to override a Trump veto?
If so, I can understand why Trump begrudgingly signed the bill as otherwise he would have lost political capital with a veto override by Congress.
I’m with Trump for this, for the time being.
It rebuilds our military. That is critical right now. I do NOT like that is failed to get an increase in spending for the wall, but let’s see what happens with that. Meanwhile Trump is thus far aggressively, approaching our massive, and ever-increasing trade deficit with communist China, and other countries.
That is the most important issue right now.
Hold off criticizing Trump for now, please.
If you vote for the “D”, you will get the same only worse.
True fiscal conservatives like Dave Brat & Rand Paul are getting fewer and fewer in congress.
If Trump would have vetoed the gargantuan spending bill, I am certain the happy to spend other people’s money congress had enough votes to over-ride the veto. A moral victory does not put any cash in anyone’s pockets.
And it gets worse. If Trump had vetoed the bill, he becomes less likable to the big spenders and less likely to get any of his remaining agenda passed through congress.
I recommend Trump find a way to somehow become a dictator and then he will be able to make the base happy every time. May be get some pointers from Kim Jong UN or the Mullahs in Iran.
Read the posts today re Trump’s 2 letters to Ryan and McConnell dated 3/23. The omnibus is merely slush fund and not subject to the Constitutional constraints that is a budget.
Trump can reassign and redirect huge amounts of the appropriations toward his objectives.
This will be extremely interesting to observe as UniParty heads explode.
Don’t worry.....it will turn out very well for us
The Republican campaign slogan is now, “Next Time!”
Here comes the fair weather long knives, again...
As if they give a crap what we mere peons think...
This is the most discouraging thing he did so far. I just can’t understand why the republicans and he did this? Aside from the global elites taking their masks off.
The bottom line is that if we elect enough conservatives to pass the bill without the Democrats then this won’t happen.
Any day now the letters and phone calls for money and support for the 2018 election will be coming from the congress creatures...
Terrible budget, but that is due to GOP ‘leadership’ not Trump.
Has anyone actually read the bill? A lot of his supporters were disheartened until some cool heads explained the difference between a budget and an omnibus bill. Some groups are actually going through the bill and will be sharing their findings. I checked Congress.gov page for appropriations bill and there were NAYS including Warren and Feinstein. So that must be a good sign. They probably knew what was in this bill.
Here is the link to the bill and the votes: https://www.congress.gov/resources/display/content/Appropriations+for+Fiscal+Year+2018