Posted on 03/23/2018 11:10:15 AM PDT by Innovative
Just hours after threatening a veto, President Trump said Friday afternoon that he had signed the sweeping $1.3 trillion spending bill passed by Congress early Friday and averted a government shutdown. In a morning tweet, Trump said he might veto the omnibus bill because it does nothing to address the fate of young undocumented immigrants known as “dreamers” and does not fully fund his border wall. But speaking to reporters at the White House about four hours later, Trump said he had decided to sign the bill despite his reservations, arguing that it provides much-needed funding for the military, including a pay increase for troops and new equipment.Just hours after threatening a veto, President Trump said Friday afternoon that he had signed the sweeping $1.3 trillion spending bill passed by Congress early Friday and averted a government shutdown.
In a morning tweet, Trump said he might veto the omnibus bill because it does nothing to address the fate of young undocumented immigrants known as “dreamers” and does not fully fund his border wall.
But speaking to reporters at the White House about four hours later, Trump said he had decided to sign the bill despite his reservations, arguing that it provides much-needed funding for the military, including a pay increase for troops and new equipment.
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Maybe you should go find a safe space somewhere if you can’t handle it.
You jumping into something that you were not involved in is not becoming. I didn’t mention anything about what ding dong contributes until being accused of being the reason that ding dong doesn’t contribute.
Being an uninvited self righteous grammar, spelling and sentence structure nazi on fellow freepers isn’t becoming either.
Or they would easily have overridden the veto.
I still support Trump. He’s all I got.
I still support Trump. He’s all I got.
Give me some time to find the video clip of the rally(s) where he said it, but I'm not going to listen to them all again to find it.
But he did say it, promise it.
If you think immigration legal or illegal is going down your are just not too smart. When ever DACA comes up there is a new influx of illegals because they feel/know eventually they will get to stay.
If the President wanted to shut down Sanctuary cities he would just enforce the law. Of course I suppose it is possible that no one has told him they a breaking a law and can be held financially responsible for damage that any illegal they help causes.
If changing the population from European to Hispanic improved the society South America would be a paradise.
My mama has been dead for 42 years kid.
Yep up is down and bad is good. I remember Harry Truman bragging about how well his daughter Margaret could could sing, she couldn't sing even though Wiki shows she was a singer. Harry couldn't play the piano either but he played anyway.
>> The “wall”, or rather fence <<
Aha!
Maybe Mexico will pay for it faster if we call it a fence rather than a wall?
Oh good grief, you again.
>> Triggered newbie! <
Maaybe a KGB troll from St Petersburg?
Remind your husband the following. It was the Republican controlled House and the Republican controlled Senate that passed the Omnibus. Yet it’s some how it is all President Trump’s fault???
It did not matter that President Trump said it was a scam, it was out of control, the Swamp was holding him hostage, it was cutting off military funding during critical crisis with North Korea, China and Russia. It’s all just talk right?
It did not matter that President Trump pointed out the congress is trying to cut out border funding, veterans funding, old folks funding, medicare, medicaid or any of it.
Yeah it’s not the Republicans fault in the House or Senate for passing the bill with all the pork in it. It’s not the Democrats fault too it’s all President Trump’s fault right?
Yeah it does not matter if President Trump killed TPP in the first week in office, it does not matter if President Trump brought back 2 million jobs in 14 months, it does not matter if he brought back 300 Billion from overseas, it does not matter that we have 5 Trillion dollars in the Stock Market since President Trump has been elected, it doesn’t matter if China has huge tariffs on us and he started new tariffs on them yesterday. All that means nothing right now?
Yeah lets go with the sunshine patriots mob mentality of what feels good..., and that President Trump is a traitor. Yeah he’s a piece of crap and we should have elected Hillary right? Yeah the sunshine Patriots are right Hillary was good. Things like the Arab Spring that brought us ISIS. Bill Clinton and the Globalists, the de-industrialization of the United States, giving our missile secrets over to communist China.
Yeah forget President Trump for renegotiating NAFTA and GATT, securing the border breaking the back of political correctness, doing all the things that have had the media and the Globalists so upset. It does not matter. The sunshine patriots are right....(sarcasm off).
The bill has some awful things, but I love how people say it’s not the Republican congresses fault for putting this in the bill and then passing it. Some how it’s all President Trump’s fault?
Many people can’t seem to differentiate rate between facts and fiction. They like to feel like a victim and pissed off. So now they sit back and wish Hillary Clinton was elected? After all she was so strong, so smart so amazing!.....NOT!!!
It seems to me no one is appreciative for all the crap President Trump has gone through. The guy is a Billionaire, had life set, but he stuck his neck out for us, risk ruining all his businesses his built for decades, the Trump name to save our Republic and doing the job for free! He even paid for his own campaign!
The Globalists have been tying President Trump’s hands down with all the fake stolen election and Russian crap. President Trump has had his hands tied down, nominees tied up and no honeymoon period like every other President enjoyed. He’s been trying to save our economy when Hillary and the Globalists wanted to implode it. No it’s all President Trump’s fault and the nameless Democrat/Republican congress are getting points for attacking President Trump saying he failed and they won with a big bankruptcy plan.
The above was simply point out that I am tired of the bitching and moaning by some conservatives that lack the ability to think more than 1 or 2 steps ahead. I have absolute 100% faith in President Trump. My gut tells me (it is never wrong) to trust President Trump on this move. President Trump clearly knows more than the rest of us. There are more angles in this than what we see on the Kabuki theater in the media (aka the FAKE STREAM NEWS).
All your husband is listening to a bunch of irrelevant people. Many of those people have doubted President Trump and ended up with egg all over their face. We are all looking for instant gratification, but it does not work that way in Washington DC. It moves slow by design. Moreover, you can tell A LOT of the character of a man by who are his enemies. Furthermore, I judge a man by the fruit he produces and not the daily theatrics on TV and radio.
President Trump has produced about 80% of what he campaigned on in the first 15 months of his Presidency. That’s more than President Reagan in 8 years. Anything that he has done through the Executive branch has been good. I am going to trust President Trump on this. Let’s give it some time and see what fruit it produces before we just attack him.
This not directed at you Lady Jane, but some Freepers are killing me. I am wondering if they are DNC trolls?
Sadly, a sizable minority of voters will conclude voting won’t make a difference, whether you or I like it or not.
I predict a 100 seat Dem gain, plus or minus 25, thanks to this disgusting betrayal of the base.
Well then, dammit, lay it on them! Now Trump owns it. Besides, there is no way on God’s earth that the veto would have been overridden in the House if Trump laid out an impassioned, articulate defense of his veto. But, he chose to buckle and betray all his most loyal supporters, many of whom had really trusted him.
>> Omnibus is NOT an official ‘Federal Budget’ <<
Yeah, sure, just like Washington DC is not the official seat of government for the USA, because the word “Washington” is never used in the Constitution.
... and they could have overridden his veto.
The veto is not really not that much power when almost the entire Congress hates his guts.
>> Not a word about Trump alienating his base <<
Maybe Hannity was just following orders.
That is, the bosses may have decreed that no criticism of DJT will be expressed or even implied by the staff during FNC’s evening hours?
Sometimes I get the suspicion that the Murdoch brothers think FNC viewers are just a stupid bunch of yahoos who will lap up any pablum put before them, as long as it is topped with some kinda sauce that has “conservative” printed prominently on the bottle’s label.
>> you still find something to bitch about <<
Welcome to FR!
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