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Trump "failed" and yet he just signed into law a major bill that was supported by 61% of the House and 65% of the Senate? I am really not getting this, people. I guess for some people, anything Trump does is a failure. lol
By the way, construction of the Border Wall is due to begin next week.
Trump "failed" and yet he just signed into law a major bill that was supported by 61% of the House and 65% of the Senate? I am really not getting this, people.
By the way, construction of the Border Wall is due to begin next week.
I guess you didn't get the part of this Omnibust bill that stated that while the wall funding was given said wall cannot resemble in any way the wall ideas put forward. Basically they funded chain link fence. OH BOY!
Remember Bush Sr and his "No new taxes" pledge? What happened to him? If Trump lasts through his first term I think the same will happen to him.
One term and out with a "don't let the door hit you in the a$$"...
Trump started in on transgenders in the military again.
Guess he figured there was no more mileage to be had with the Muslim travel ban.
His base is mad at him so he's going to throw them a little bone to chew on over the week-end. So predictable.
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For the life of me, I cannot figure out why Trump signed a bill with more Russian sanctions.
That's not going to look good on his performance review.
No one even knew it was in there OR who put it in there!
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The Pentagon needs another 74 billion like I need a......nevermind. That black hole is the world`s biggest corporate welfare program that made $125 billion disappear. https://www.washingtonpost.com/inves...aa5_story.html
How quickly they forget. He WAS offered money for the border wall and he chose to kill the deal. SUCH a great negotiator.
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It should not be surprising what has happened here. The establishment pubs never saw Trump as more than a useful moron. They fear speaking out against him for fear of his base. He is not a man who studies politics or policy. He has no allegiance to the party and he only cares about how people view him. The congress critters were happy with him being the front man for this freak show while they do their dirt behind the scenes. They knew he would sign anything if you put a shiny object in his face (military spending). Trump enjoys the political rallies he is famous far. He could careless doing the job he was elected to do. He is a shuck and jiver if I have ever saw one. His schick is growing tired and the walls are closing in on him. No way in hell does he last 3 more years with the BS he has been shoving down our throats. The circus is getting ready for the final call and if we are lucky the ringmaster will be heading to jail.
So true. They just assumed he would sign anything they put in front of him and so far ~ they were right.
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Originally Posted by BigCityDreamer
Trump "failed" and yet he just signed into law a major bill that was supported by 61% of the House and 65% of the Senate? I am really not getting this, people. I guess for some people, anything Trump does is a failure. lol
By the way, construction of the Border Wall is due to begin next week.
Democrat leaders along with Republican leaders wrote this bill in secret and no one was allowed to read it before it passed. Democrats are willing to spend over 700 billion on a war budget just so guys like shumer can get a 600 milion tunnel that probably wont even come in close to that
There is not one republican on this board that doesnt have utter contempt and probably outright hatred for Paul Ryan, Mitch Mcconnell, Lindsay Graham and most mainstream republicans, and even real anger and contempt against President Trump for signing this abomination.
The democrats act like adding over a trillion dollars to the debt is a victory? We now owe more than $21 trillion in debt, roughly $65,000 for every man, woman, and child in this country. Annual deficits are projected to exceed $1 trillion for as far as the eye can see, the debt is expected to top $33 trillion within a decade.
The sky is the limit for our nations debt as the unfunded liabilities of programs such as Social Security and Medicare kick in.
This is our kids future and what we are leaving them, not to mention this is basically a war budget. Both parties are a pile of **** and both parties wrote this omnibus bill. The hatred directed towards Ryan and McConnell is always there among right wingers, its even being directed at Trump by every right winger I have read because everyone wanted change.
That's too funny. Republicans have a majority in the house, all that was required was that they pass it with a simple majority. Current representation of the house is 238R -192D and you want to rant about how Democrats did this? Give.me.a.break.
Ummm, HELLOOOOOO! The game is over for at least the next year and a half as this budget stands for that long. That's the beauty of it, language written in that there will be no budget next year which means THIS budget stays in effect.
Trump failed, plain and simple.
In order to fail, he would have had to actually try.
It's as plain as water that while he loves to issue sweeping pronouncements, he has zilch interest in thinking about how things mesh together. All he cares about is telling himself that he's a Very Important Person. There was never any there there.
I was close: https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/23/polit...use/index.html
I expect there will be a strong burst of this kind of anti-humanitarian garbage (anti-gay, anti-foreigner, pro-redneck) to appease the most unintelligent members of his base (white nationalists, christian fundamentalists, fring wing nuts) and to try to silence his more politically moderate critics. All the while he will be exploiting foreign labor, cheating on his wife with nasty ho’s, and firming up back door business deals with people who seek to undermine democracy. Classy.
This.
I wouldn’t be surprised if we see hate crime incidents rise too. All of that anger is going to be channeled somewhere.
And they sure aren’t going to look inward and blame themselves for falling for the big con.
Trump "failed" and yet he just signed into law a major bill that was supported by 61% of the House and 65% of the Senate? I am really not getting this, people. I guess for some people, anything Trump does is a failure. lol
By the way, construction of the Border Wall is due to begin next week.
lol you still believe Trump is going to build this wall? At this point the only way he can build it is if he pays for it himself.
This is what is in the bill:
• Prohibition against building a solid concrete border wall. The bill directs that the money only pay for designs that exist on the border today.
• $445 million to replace existing fencing, a pot of money that the administration hadn’t initially requested. Replacing existing fences is far less controversial than building new ones. Congressional aides said this would pay for about 45 miles of replacement fencing
• $251 million for the 14 miles of secondary fencing in the San Diego sector asked for by Mr. Trump.
• $641 million for 33 miles of new fencing and levee wall in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Levee walls, which are already in use in Texas, are vertical spans of concrete with bollard fencing on top. This is about half of the 60 miles requested
the reasons to continue voting republican are conservative appointments to the supreme court, retaining the 1st and 2nd amendments, and stopping the progressive march towards European style democratic socialism.
I'm not sold that the silent portion of the electorate won't remember this come November though.
I agree and it looks like he was trying to toss a bone to his base right after signing the bill by signing a new E.O. banning transgender people from the military Trump signs new transgender military ban - BBC News
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