Posted on 12/18/2015 9:06:49 AM PST by marktwain
(CNSNews.com) - The White House objects to a few Republican provisions in the omnibus $1.1-trillion spending bill, but overall, "We succeeded," White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters on Wednesday.
"So we walked into these negotiations focused on making sure that Republicans would not succeed in advancing their ideological agenda through the budgetary process, and I think, based on all of the solid reporting work that you have done over the last several weeks, there were a variety of attempts that Republicans undertook to try to do exactly that, and we did succeed in fighting off those efforts.
What is also true about this budget agreement, and this goes to one of the central priorities of the administration over the course of this year, is that it provides substantial funding for both our economic and national security priorities over and above the sequester.
"So, you know, we feel good about the outcome, primarily because we got a compromise budget agreement that fought off a wide variety of ideological riders, but yet ensures the priorities of that this administration has identified when it comes to investing in middle class families and protecting the country."
Earnest listed some of the White House "wins" in both the spending bill and a companion bill that extends tax breaks:
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The GOPe stabbed us in the chest this time instead of in the back.
What a disgrace. When the White Mosque is spiking the ball over a Republican budget deal the opposition party is over.
No one has yet to explain to me where the corporate profits or special interest money is going to come from when the economy collapses from profligate spending and government debt. I have only my imagination to go on. These new world order idiots are deluded if they think they won’t be swept up in the whirlwind when the SHTF.
“These new world order idiots are deluded if they think they won’t be swept up in the whirlwind when the SHTF.”
The think they can pull a Hitler, Mussolini, Lenin, or Mao.
They are not suckers.
They are co-comspirators.
crumbs?
fromage pour tout le monde
DemocRats in the GOP.
RepublicRATS!
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