Posted on 11/17/2016 8:09:45 AM PST by Olog-hai
House Republicans leaders say President-elect Donald Trump wants a short-term spending bill to keep the government running through March of next year. […]
Such a move would let the Republican-controlled government boost military spending while making deep cuts in domestic programs next year. …
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How does Trump have time for this kind of thing when his transition team is in chaos?
Defund left-wing NPR.
Those and more screwball AP headlines forthcoming.
Npr must go. They represent less than 50% of the american people and they crap all over everyone else.
It depends, since he has met several times with the President-elect, they may have agreed on the date. It is a reasonable date given that Mr. Trump doesn’t enter office until January 20th.
Proper budgeting takes time. This FY is half over at the end of March. So you are unlikely to see significant change for FY 17. The real fight will be to establish a sane FY 18 Budget. Which would be the first one since Obama took office.
If it has to be signed before year’s end, Obama will probably refuse, protesting that it needs to have a longer term. Anything he can do to mess with Trump...
The historic press has become the histrionic press. We tend to ignore folks we know that are histrionic.
Or the LSM making bogus statements - If Ryan or others make a false statement it will be rectified - they seem to be taking great care in what they say/don't say. Even Cruz is out there touting how "we will repeal ObamaCare" and "we will seat solid constitutionalists on SCOTUS"...
I would think that the Repubs would know by now that if, Trump said it, the verification is that you hear trump saying it. He might want a couple months of funding, without the waste, to push them to do their damn job and come up with an actual fiscally responsible budget something neither Party has worried about for a while.
I’ll wait for a Tweet from Trump....
So, yeah, keeping the budget in place rather than getting in the playpen with the dems just makes sense.
Everyone just stop talking to the press and do your work.
You’ve seen this bill?
And I prefer “Made in USA”, as the labels used to (and usually) read. For the leftist Unipartiers, “America” means a continental empire ruled by Marxism.
The Unipartiers just can’t resist.
Obama still has one more chance to shut down the government. He can’t pass on this opportunity to wreak havoc on the country one more time and direct the media to blame it on the GOP.
This is the bill they’re operating with now. There’s money budgeted for things that the Obama administration hasn’t been doing, such as letting Border Agents do their job. And we know money is being used to train and arm “moderate Syrian rebels”. A campaign point was that there is money in the budget for the wall.
Like that's going to happen.
How about “Made In The Republic of the United States?”
Since emphasis on the foundation as a constitutional republic is necessary these days, not to mention that the Guarantee Clause of Article 4 Section 4 actually enshrines it in federal law (versus any other form of government), that may work.
Yeah, that works really well: refuse to sign a bill that funds portions of the gov’t, thus “shutting it down.” Republicans’ fault!!!
Works every time...
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