[Disestablishmentarian]

>>No president has been in a weaker political position in Washington since Richard Nixon in 1974.<<

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I don’t think this is the point at all.

The President simply considered it IMPERATIVE to get the military healthy again—BECAUSE IT MAY STOP A WAR...OR FIGHT A WAR ... in the very near future.

I think with the military taken care of, we will soon see indictments start, see the Iran thing killed, see some genuine push-back against China in the South China Sea ... and of course see NorK nuclear program taken out.

The military fix was simply ESSENTIAL—and NOW, not LATER.

There is no doubt the President intends to play hardball against enemies domestic and foreign ... but he had to get bullets in the guns (literally).

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Well, I do agree with that, however he was willing to take the border wall off the table this time. Probably means we won’t get it anything there until after 2020. His position was shown to him in stark relief by his supposed allies Ryan and McConnell...and they went out of their way to shove it down his throat in the roughest way possible. They sent him a BIG message about where he stands in Washington D.C.

[Steven Tyler]

Agreed!

There is some compelling reason, not known to this board, for Trump to sign this monstrosity

[zzeeman]

The President simply considered it IMPERATIVE to get the military healthy again—BECAUSE IT MAY STOP A WAR...OR FIGHT A WAR ... in the very near future. ... The military fix was simply ESSENTIAL—and NOW, not LATER.

That is how I've been looking at it as well.