Which included everything the Democrats wanted, and more.
To top it off they continue to caution against firing Mueller, warning of "constitutional crisis".
Now they intend to convince you they are going to fix it, if you vote for them just one more time.
Wiki:
“...the President may request that Congress rescind appropriated funds. If both the Senate and the House of Representatives have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation. “
May pass the House, so some Kabuki PR value for those RINOs.
Vote for whoever you like, but I like the idea of revisiting some of the spending.
Baseline budgeting will have to be repealed before anything really gets cut.
Give the president the line item veto that he wants. Cut planned parenthood, NEA, PBS, and received love. Simple!
They better wise up unless they don’t care about being re-elected.
You hit the nail right on the head.
I know that we are mad as hell. But we need to use caution! If the Democrats take over Trump will be impeached. I do worry about that..
>>Now they intend to convince you they are going to fix it, if you vote for them just one more time.<<
Well, that’s nonsense, of course. They have 45 days to “fix it” once Trump orders any particular rescission (a devil of a word to spell, by the way...maybe that’s why it’s so rarely used?). By election day, we’ll know whether Trump issued any requests to rescind spending, and we’ll certainly know who supported him and who didn’t. That could clarify matters considerably when it comes to voting in or voting out certain people.
Trump should start with some obvious boondoggles (You know they’re in there), stuff that even some Democrats can’t really support when their voters are watching, and then move down the line item by item, ending with that half billion dollars earmarked for Planned Parenthood. Was it really a half billion? See, once you focus on a particular number, it starts to sound even more outrageous.
And take them one at a time, or a few at a time, not as a total package. Make our Congressman vote aye or nay on some real doozies. It should make a hell of a show.
Four people run this country. McConnell, Ryan, Schumer and Pelosi.
I guess you figure the democrats are going to fix it. Right?
The GOP gives smoke and mirrors a bad name.
The GOP can’t do shite on their own, since they don’t even have a simple majority in the Sen. what with Zen. Collins & Collaborators.
Look at it this way. The Dems and the GOP got together and passed a terrible bill, but we finally got a decent increase in needed defense spending.
Then the GOP base started justifiably screaming at their Congressmen about being sold out.
Now those same Congressmen are talking to Trump about the possibility of employing the rescission provision contained in the 1974 law.
This opens undreamed of possibilities. Think of the obvious pork in that bill, stuff even some Democrats won’t support when it’s out in the open. And there’s bound to be some GOP pork too, but go for the Dem pork first.
Trump could turn the entire process into one hell of a reality show, with real money involved—our money. And in the end, the funding for Planned Parenthood could end up on the chopping block. Send a hundred different requests up and vote on each of them one by one. Trump could be tweeting a new one every day for months, and you know he’d love it, and so would we.
If they wanted to get back in the good graces of their base, they would retro-actively re-apply the old SALT deduction. I thought my half-SALT idea would do, but that would screw over some other people in the meantime perhaps.
How did they raise taxes on 20%?
The Republicans did not raise taxes on 20% of their core. that’s just Democratic moronic talking points your echoing like a brain dead zombie. Stop scrapping in your diapers. You’re stinking up the place.
When will Trump stop listening to Ryan and McConnell and go over their heads to the people? Now I hope.
Planned parenthood, NEA, PBS are good starting points. Shift their money to the wall account.
The question is “which funding”.....would be nice if they managed to undo the crap he would have lined through if he had line-item-veto powers....