Posted on 11/18/2016 5:24:49 AM PST by Olog-hai
Donald Trump has asked Republicans who control Congress to delay action on a 2017 budget until he gets into office. House Speaker Paul Ryan has apparently agreed, but Senate Republicans have other ideas.
Speaker Paul D. Ryan said on Thursday that the House would go along with the incoming administration's request and pass a stopgap spending bill that would keep the government running at current spending levels until March.The way the budget process has worked for the last eight years is that Obama told Congress exactly how much money he wanted, and Congress, afraid of Obama shutting down the government and blaming them, gave Obama 100%. This is the process that Blunt, Alexander, and perhaps even McConnell still want to continue, even with Trump’s election as president. If they do this again, this will needlessly lock Obama’s budget into Trump’s first year as president. …But Republican leaders in the Senate did not immediately sign on to the plan, reflecting their desire to get contentious spending battles out of the way this year. […]
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IF the spineless, bastard republicans pass odumbo’s budget and not Trumps, they need to be remembered and GONE at the first opportunity to replace them. If we expect to help President Trump Make American Great Again, we need to get behind him as our new leader and support his budget. Trump picks “winners” and odumbo picked losers, just like himself. We got rid of odumbo for more than one reason, why stop now?
Trump doesn’t have a 2017 budget bill. We’re already in FY 2017. Trump’s first budget will be 2018.
If the House wont deal with it, who cares what the senate wants ?
Santa is making a list and checking it twice.
Ryan said he'd go along with Trump's request to pass a stop-gap and leave the big decisions to next year. How is that not good?
Straeker, ve don’t thhpp thhpp in Free Republic!
Apparently, they didn’t get the memo their employers, sent out on the 8th.
I think the Senate is going to be the chief pain in the ass for Trump’s agenda.
Are there any senators with gonads?
Budgets originate in the House. So what is the problem?
A sickening cabal of RINOs is the US senate.
Whole-heartedly agree.
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