“Hopefully Trump will use the funded army to build the wall”
I’ve lost my mind all day today and am now just getting to reading some of the highlights of this bill and came across some $89 billion in unmarked military spending and remember a couple months ago there was talk of using the Army Corp of Engineers to build the wall because they are essentially the best builders in the business.
I’ve set aside my anger and am now focusing on trying to figure out why this bill was passed so quickly with an initial diagnosis that one of the best negotiators in the world got hoodwinked. Once you can eliminate emotion, and trust me, it has been hard for me, none of this makes sense financially or politically so something has to be up.
Yes, I've been trying to figure out where the "art of the deal" is in all this. What did Trump get out of it?
One possible scenario is that leaders from both sides of the aisle promised to not impeach Trump in return for signing the bill. This "deal" obviously would not be made public.
It's possible. In anycase where's the deal here? He threw all his base under the bus, what does he get in return? It's not beyond the realm of the possible that Mueller really does have something on Trump.