[The Numbers]

Who cares that it was supposedly ‘Obama’s’ fiscal year? That’s a feeble excuse to offer for handing the Dems a huge win and funding the abortion of thousands of American babies.

Do you think Trump should have nominated a liberal judge to the SC because the opening came up during Obama’s term? The opportunity was there. We had an election in which the Ds were roundly rejected in favor of Trump and the wall. Rs have a responsibility to US to pass the budget WE want, not a responsibility to Obama to pass the budget he would have wanted.

[Alberta's Child]

One defense I'll offer for the GOP is that they aren't really passing a budget bill here. I don't think a 2017 budget was every approved by Congress. The U.S. government is basically operating through a series of "continuing resolutions" aimed at simply extending previous outlays -- and this is just the latest (and last) of those resolutions.

The entire government of this country is broken, if you haven't figured this out. Trump ain't going to fix it no matter how good his intentions may be. You can't fix a broken government when the country itself is broken beyond repair.

[dynoman]

The point is; in the big picture it’s not a huge win for the dems. They are painting it as a huge win in a fundraising campaign. It’s all they have.

[Tammy8]

The reason it matters that this is the last quarter of a previous budget is because if Trump fights hard on this he would be bogged down in the battle up to his eyeballs when it is actually time to begin work on the budget for the next fiscal year. The budget for the next actual fiscal year is far, far more important than this budget for the last quarter of the last fiscal year. Contracts are already in place that end at the end of the fiscal year in September. It would create chaos to take money from those contracts in place. It is also really hard to do new projects when you only have one quarter to work with as well. Contractors interested in doing the work on the wall would not be so interested in gearing up for such a large project for a short term contract. The logistics would be a nightmare for 3 month projects.

It is a plus that he managed to get an increase in military budget and border security budget in this short term budget. To fund or de-fund major things for this last qtr. budget without full support would just result in a fight that would carry over right into the budget for the next fiscal year.