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McConnell says deep State Department budget cuts won't pass
Reuters ^ | February 28, 2017 | by Richard Cowan

Posted on 02/28/2017 12:11:30 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The cancer (GOP RINOS) is still prevalent within the US Senate. Many of these bums are beholden to their donors.


41 posted on 02/28/2017 12:55:12 PM PST by kenmcg (uNFORTUNATELY)
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To: Gene Eric

Turtle not curious how State managed to make payroll when Obama and Hillary Clinton stole $6,000,000,000. Is that $6 billion? Because Mitch and his party never worried back then about State not having enough money.

Just who spends/pockets all that cash sent to the State Dept? Was that $6 billion used as “walking around” money all over the Capitol?


42 posted on 02/28/2017 12:57:34 PM PST by The Westerner (Protect the most vulnerable: Replace all textbooks K-12!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The DOS mysteriously “lost” 8 billion dollars under Clinton and can’t accept a budget to make it more manageable. Something smells here.


43 posted on 02/28/2017 1:00:10 PM PST by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: McGavin999

Money going to third world crap holes is the easiest to steal.


44 posted on 02/28/2017 1:01:40 PM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

When the debt ceiling is reached Mr. Trump can slash at will. Mwhahahahaha. (rubbing hands together)


45 posted on 02/28/2017 1:04:47 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I still say Alison Grimes was the lesser evil after KY failed to Cantorize Yertle with Matt Bevins.


46 posted on 02/28/2017 1:06:25 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: SamuraiScot

A permanent hiring & promotion freeze, restructuring, etc. will go a long way toward that objective.


47 posted on 02/28/2017 1:06:54 PM PST by MSF BU (Support the troops: Join Them.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I feared only one thing when Trump got elected. If he is ultimately stymied then it proves changing the status quo run by the establishment is not possible using non violent means. This is scary stuff.


48 posted on 02/28/2017 1:08:07 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: alancarp
Do they have to actually spend whatever is appropriated? Could monies be returned (I know, radical thought)?

Have you come up with a new wrinkle, a way around the current ban on the line item veto?

49 posted on 02/28/2017 1:19:36 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: McGavin999

Members of congress leave as millionaires.


50 posted on 02/28/2017 1:25:53 PM PST by Vehmgericht
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Isn’t the state department part of the executive branch? Doesn’t the President therefore determined their funding?


51 posted on 02/28/2017 1:27:10 PM PST by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton)
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To: McGavin999
Who is getting kickbacks? The entire Congress is which is why trying to go through Congress to get anything done is futile. Those guys' Congressional salaries are sofa change to them. They work for much higher paying bosses.
52 posted on 02/28/2017 2:18:53 PM PST by arthurus
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To: MagUSNRET

Not a “pussy,” he is protecting his income.


53 posted on 02/28/2017 2:19:23 PM PST by arthurus
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

OK, put it in the budget...then Trump can simply not spend it. And the poor Congress critters get the same haircut when their graft dries up by Executive action.


54 posted on 02/28/2017 2:20:49 PM PST by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: rdcbn

“A few weeks ago Mitch was going on and on about the desperate need to cut government spending and get the budget under control.”

He has a lifetime of saying things like that and never intending to actually do it.

Then along comes Wild Bill Trump, and hey...everything has changed.


55 posted on 03/01/2017 7:22:32 AM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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