Posted on 04/30/2019 8:08:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Donald Trump and Democratic congressional leaders agreed Tuesday to work together on a $2 trillion infrastructure package — but put off for later the difficult question of how to pay for it.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said there was “good will in the meeting” — a marked departure from the last meeting between Trump, Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, which ended with Trump walking out in a huff. Schumer said the two sides agreed that infrastructure investments create jobs and make the United States more competitive economically with the rest of the world.
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Those roads going to be paved with gold?
Just media gabbling so far but...
Congress does love to spend OUR money.
The DemocRATS want to get credit for the infrastructure improvements but, from listening to Schumer, they want Trump to come up with the means to pay for it. In other words the ‘RATS get credit for the “good things” and Trump gets the blame for any pain.
Trump won’t fall into THAT trap being set by these snakes.
Let me spell it out— “crumbling infrastructure” is a BS meme that has been used for decades to squeeze money out of stingy legislatures. Don’t mean squat.
He should have made them account for the last $2 Trillion in stimulus spending.
...and not even 1/4 of that for border security.
They want most of it as illusory, wasteful “green” jobs and want it paid for by revoking the tax cuts.
Wait the story says that they don’t have the money but are planning it anyway and will pay for it over 10 years. The border wall was “we don’t have $5 billion so go to hell.”
These pork barrel laden bills are only titled this where they are nothing more than taxpayer robbery for the lobbyist and DC RATS.
Lies, lies and more damn lies.
If no wall included then Trump is a goner....
The wall just got 10 feet higher!!
It’s times like this that make me really appreciate the fact John McCain is dead.
At least we don’t have to listen to him flapping his jaws endlessly about bi partisanship opportunities with the Dems.
It’s times like this that really make me appreciate how much the MSM must truly miss McCain.
Border security and immigration reduction are campaign promises only, never enacted policy.
I guess that is the incentive approach for Dems to make a deal.
It is a lot of incentive, but I still doubt they will actually make a deal - unless it is a complete surrender by Republicans.
Quoting you. So well said.
That’s only half of it.
There needs to be real upgrades.
Not just busy work that neither changes nor improves anything, like was done under Obama’s stimulus package.
could be a mistake:
“Pelosi has dozens of new Democratic House members who won in competitive districts, said Shuster, and “they need to be able to go home next year and say they’ve accomplished something.””
they agreed to try to agree. this really doesn’t seem like that big of a deal to me . . . Yet.
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