Even a half-assed politician would know that you should work those things out beforehand instead of getting steamrolled and facing a PR storm.
He didn't even get a single other House member to "second" his motion.
At the end of the day, this accomplished absolutely nothing.
Not quite. It encouraged those of us who thought there wasn't one man of principle left in that swamp.
At least there was one.
“....this accomplished absolutely nothing.”
It could have if it had been handled properly. It could have relieved Trump of the responsibility of paying the pork while trying to expedite the bill so he would have lost both ways because he couldn’t afford to let this bill die in the house or he’d get blamed as no one would know why.
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