Posted on 10/09/2017 7:13:31 PM PDT by markomalley
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is offering support to Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) amid a war of words between the latter and President Trump.
"Sen. Corker is a valuable member of the Senate Republican caucus and he’s also on the Budget committee and a particularly important player as we move to the floor on the budget next week and he’s an important part of our team,” McConnell said Monday in Kentucky, according to the Associated Press.
Asked about whether he agreed with Corker's criticism of Trump, McConnell sidestepped, adding: "[Corker is] an important part of our team and he's a particularly important part of the budget debate which will be on the floor next week."
Corker and Trump traded rhetorical fire on Sunday after the president lashed out at the Tennessee senator during an early morning tweetstorm.
But Corker's staff pushed back on the president's tweet, saying Trump asked Corker to reconsider his decision to retire after 2018 and offered his endorsement if he ran for reelection.
Corker also fired back publicly at Trump, comparing the White House to an "adult day care center."
Corker stepped up his criticism later on Sunday, telling The New York Times that Trump's threats to other countries put the U.S. "on the path to World War III.”
“He concerns me,” Corker said during the interview. “He would have to concern anyone who cares about our nation.”
Corker also told the Times that he didn't get pushback for his "day care" comments when he talked to McConnell on Sunday.
Corker — once considered as a potential vice president or secretary of State under Trump — says he talks with the president frequently, but his increasingly sharp criticism appears to have rankled the president and his allies.
McConnell's comments on Monday come as Senate GOP leadership will try to pass its fiscal 2018 budget next week. The bill includes instructions that will allow Republicans to pass tax reform by a simple majority, avoiding a Democratic filibuster.
But Republicans have a narrow path for passing either the budget or, ultimately, tax reform. With a 52-seat majority they need the support of at least 50 senators, which would allow Vice President Mike Pence to break a tie.
Corker has emerged as one of the loudest Republican critics in the Senate of leadership's tax blueprint, saying he won't support even a "penny's worth of deficits."
“I want tax reform to reduce the deficit,” he said last week. “I want it to be pro-growth, and I want it to be permanent.”
But he added that his skepticism about the current tax framework wouldn't impact his support for the budget.
Go to the MAGAcoalition.com for more info..Gorka heads it!!
“I want tax reform to reduce the deficit,” he said last week.
And yet, this SOB said nothing as Obama overspent by TEN TRILLION DOLLARS in 8 years.
Oh gee, one stooge defending another. It’s the stooge party of pay to play.
It might be quicker to let Rocket Boy™ vaporize the swamp for us.
Let’s see(here we go again): McDonnell is up again in 2020. He quits in 2019. Who does the Kentucky governor appoint to finish the term? Himself? It all depends on whether or not Bannon finishes 2018 as Time’s Man of the Year. Getting’ good my friends.
Translation: "Corker controls a lot of pork that our donors demand we get a hold of."
Will no one rid us of these meddlesome RINO's?
Certainly is...
Both of them need to go.
Corker will be the next stinking heap of Trump roadkill.
little bit of both, probably.
He said the deficit, not the national debt, take note.
He talks like a RAT.
Tax reform=tax increase.
YES!
McConell is up in 20 if there’s even a small rino purge l don’t see him winning that primary.
True, but he is talking like either matters to him.
The GOP has never worried about the deficit, they allowed it to increase every year by allowing continuous resolutions, even when they were in power.
They tried it again to get them past the midterms, and Trump said no way.
Corker is a despicable swamp creature, and what he said about Trump was horrible.
As far as what Trump said about Corker, I will believe Trump. He tells the truth.
Filthy dogs are standing in the way of the American people.
This is the real reason Bob Corker is retiring
The Deep State McTurtle and Corksucker are worthless POS’s!
McConnell and Corker could both be flushed with one push of the commode handle.
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