[Olog-hai]

Ryno thinking already he speaks for Trump.

[Raycpa]

How does Trump have time for this kind of thing when his transition team is in chaos?

[Paladin2]

Defund left-wing NPR.

[drop 50 and fire for effect]

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.

[DJ Frisat]

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...

[trebb]

Ryno thinking already he speaks for Trump.

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.

[Sacajaweau]

I’ll wait for a Tweet from Trump....

[grania]

That spending bill includes things like funds to build a wall, enforce immigration law (and send home invaders) money that's being used for arms and training for "moderates" who work with ISIS. It can be re-directed to disintegrating the scum. Begin the "Made in America" rhetoric, and employment will increase.

So, yeah, keeping the budget in place rather than getting in the playpen with the dems just makes sense.

[Savage Rider]

Everyone just stop talking to the press and do your work.

[DoodleDawg]

... while making deep cuts in domestic programs next year.

Like that's going to happen.

[mewzilla]

Baseline budgeting gets axed first.

[sphinx]

In the last year of GWB's administration, the budget process was again at a complete stalemate. There was a short term CR to get past the election. When Obama won, a Democratic Congress then passed another short term CR to allow Obama and the Democrats to work their will on the remainder of FY 1999.

Bush left office with a clean CR pegged at a carryover of last-year numbers, with no earmarks. In the second-half CR, the Democrats added several hundred billion in new spending, and thousands of earmarks that had been blocked by the Bush people. They then passed separately several "emergency supplemental appropriations" plus the Obama stimulus bill. All told, they added over a trillion dollars to baseline funding.

Turnabout is fair play. More importantly, given the Democratic record, it is important that they get a big helping of what they themselves dish out. Right now, the Democrats clearly believe in double standards, and if they don't feel the pain when Republicans take control, they will never revert to a fair play orientation.

The approach suggested in this story is precisely correct. For purposes of public messaging, Republicans must insist that we are merely doing exactly what was done at the end of 2008.