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Mr. Trump’s $4.1 trillion budget, with its deep cuts to poverty programs, biomedical research, student loans and foreign aid, will not pass, as Republicans on Capitol Hill have freely acknowledged and even the White House is aware. Republicans on Capitol Hill parted ways with the president not only on many of his deepest cuts but also on some of his smaller proposals, like resurrecting a national nuclear waste repository in Nevada and ending the Great Lakes cleanup program. Republicans, Pushing Aside Trump
Typical Trump idiocy and inhumanity, and typical impotence of the GOP/Party of No-Plan!
Yeah, everyone knew that. Trumps budget was bonkers. It increased deficit and cut a bunch of stuff that was politically toxic to cut. The politically toxic part honestly needs to be confronted. We NEED to cut spending and you can't do it without addressing politically toxic spending.
That said, if you're going to wade into the politically toxic waters, you god damn well better have a reason for doing so. Trumps budget didn't. It just increased the budget deficit so it really had no allies except for people who didn't care about anything except the corporate welfare to defense contractors which isn't a large number of people.
Mr. Trump’s $4.1 trillion budget, with its deep cuts to poverty programs, biomedical research, student loans and foreign aid, will not pass, as Republicans on Capitol Hill have freely acknowledged and even the White House is aware. Republicans on Capitol Hill parted ways with the president not only on many of his deepest cuts but also on some of his smaller proposals, like resurrecting a national nuclear waste repository in Nevada and ending the Great Lakes cleanup program. Republicans, Pushing Aside Trump
Typical Trump idiocy and inhumanity, and typical impotence of the GOP/Party of No-Plan!
Sooner or later, the GOP are going to see Trump as dead weight that does more harm than good to their Party, then if they do not have a good reason they will make one up and he will be gone, all they have to do is get the votes in the Senate, highly likely, and that will be that. Good news is Mrs Trump will not have to move into the Whitehouse with the old crazy guy.
Paul Ryan claims he supports the budget bill but hasn't read it. It sounds a lot like the healthcare reform bill. He's probably the architect of this bill as well. He's done this in the past when he doesn't want to answer for a law he's pushing. It'll be withdrawn and then come back with many of the same major points.
The question is - what can the congressional GOP agree on? They lost on the FY 2017 budget because their own conference was not united and they needed Democratic votes, so shutting down the government and blaming Chuck Schumer was not possible. Can they all agree on something and then make Chuck Schumer the bad guy when they can't get 8 Democrats? Or will they again be in the position where their own conference does not agree and huge concessions to the Democrats are necessary to get them on board?
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I feel badly for moderate republicans and independents. People who have conservative values bit aren't crazy peiple like most Trumpets.
With a full house (Republican Congress, Senate, and POTUS), legislation should he getting passed like crazy. But no, Trump is such an idiot and knows so little about politics and how gov't works....conservatives can't even take advantage of getting stuff done because most of what Trump proposes is horse****.
Paul Ryan claims he supports the budget bill but hasn't read it. It sounds a lot like the healthcare reform bill. He's probably the architect of this bill as well. He's done this in the past when he doesn't want to answer for a law he's pushing. It'll be withdrawn and then come back with many of the same major points.
Paul Ryan as a policy wonk has been thoroughly discredited at this point. Boehner looks much more competent in retrospect. I have to think Boehner is enjoying his retirement.
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