Trump Shows He Is Shrewd, Cunning, & Crazy Like A Fox

My Head | 3/26/18 | OV

[OneVike]

Trump is smarter than many realize, or want to admit. He may have actually won by signing the bill many of us hate. Follow me.

To begin with, you need to understand that the bill President Trump signed, was NOT a Budget. It was an Omnibus Spending bill. The President is directed by the Constitution to adhere to a Budget that Congress approves. A ‘spending bill’ is not the same as the Federal Budget. This bill is just a another Continuing Resolution to keep the government functioning, but this time for 6 Months.

As such, he is not bound by law to do everything it calls for. We may find out that he only spends $800 Billion instead of the full $1.3 trillion. If so, I can only imagine who will not be getting the money they expected.

Remember, 8 years Obama never once had a budget. Thus he had free reign to spend or not spend the money allocated at his will and when he so desired. We know that Obama spent, or didn’t spend, the money from all those Omnibus Spending Bills. He did whatever he wanted to and Congress didn’t, and couldn't do a thing about it!

After all, what ever happened to all those “shovel ready jobs”? What happened to the “Infrastructure” that Congress appropriated money for? Obama didn’t spend the money on those things, did he? We really don't even have a clue as to what he spent the money on, or who he gave it to. (ISIS maybe?)

He also spent money on things that weren’t appropriated, like all that SWAT Gear and Ammo for all those govt agencies that aren’t supposed to armed to the teeth like like military forces are.

Well truth is, Obama was never bound by a Budget, because Congress never passed one during his 8 years! That’s why he was able to spend money on whatever he wanted to. Or, not spend money on the things he didn’t want to see funded.

An article in Forbes gives some ideas of how Trump can do what I believe he will be doing. How Trump Could Circumvent Congress On Spending By Impounding Funds This article shows the leeway Trump has at his disposal to defer spending available funds for limited amounts of time, depending on the program. Some observers expect Trump officials to rely heavily on such deferrals.

Most budget experts will tell you that a President seeking to spend less will find plenty of room to maneuver in the language used in an authorization or appropriations bill. Who knows, we could learn later this year that Trump spent less than half of what Congress authorized him to spend. Nice to have a frugal President for a change, ain't it?

Another article back in August of 2017, by Politico, had also pointed out that Trump could ignore Congress on spending. In it a Senate aide predicted that lawmakers will pay extra attention to whether a bill uses words such as “may,” “should” or “shall” — each of which gives an administration different degrees of flexibility in terms of how money is spent. Fears grow that Trump could ignore Congress on spending

The executive branch also “can slow walk things. It can propose reprogramming. It can propose all sorts of things that won’t provoke a legal crisis,” the Senate aide added.

As for funding Planned parenthood, the Hyde Amendment specifically prohibits federal money being spent on abortion in other than certain specific circumstances? Trump could just tell PP, "Sorry Charley, but the Hyde Amendment stops me from giving you money." Or at least force PP to prove any money spent meets the requirements? Even then, he slow walk the money until he gets the legislation he wants to kill the funding permanently.

Another point is that during the press conference, Trump emphatically said that the border security is part of our national defense. trump could very well use the money he got for defense to build the wall. Thus ensuring the defense of America by stopping the invaders from freely entering the country.

Looks like Trump played Congress like a fiddle. He used the same tactic's the last administration used used. When was the last time we saw a Republican president fight the left by using the same tactics they use? Well Trump has been doing it since he first said he was running for President. He did so in the election in how he treated his opponent, and now he is doing so in how he runs the government.

Trump is playing 3D chess while everyone is still playing checkers. Also, Trump showed the world the that the Democrats and Republican Establishment could care less about DACA, because in a bill that seemed to have given away Ft Knox, there is nothing about DACA. They just lost a major election talking point by not making sure it was included. Plus, the Democrats cannot go back to their communist districts and blame the DACA problem on Trump and Republicans, because more Democrats voted for the final bill than Republicans did.

So in a nut shell, Congressional Swampers screwed themselves for not approving a budget and Trump is getting exactly what he wants, because he signed an Omnibus spending bill that does not have the shackles a Budget has. Plus he got $700 Billion this year and $716 Billion next year. That includes the largest pay raise in history for our soldiers.

Yup, crazy like a fox that man is, crazy like a fox.

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[Jane Long]

Stop with your broken record nonsense, please.

It’s okay to state something once, maybe twice...but the ONGOING repeat posting, is old.

Why not make your statement, then sit back and see what actually happens?

[Jane Long]

I’m glad you’ve come around, on this.

Hopefully, your good thoughts will bring a few others around, too.

Thanks.

[arthurus]

Trump may just, with this move and its follow ons, be ending the venerable Congressional tradition of not passing budgets.

[proust]

This is the first time I said what would happen if Trump deviates from the spending bill. The broken record people are the “564D backgammon in space” people in this thread.

[arthurus]

Trump is way smarter than YOU think.

[chris37]

Yep, me too.

Show me something!

[OneVike]

No they put language saying he could not use the prototypes being constructed.

[DouglasKC]

Here in Los Angeles I personally watched as they put those stupid little signs touting the slush fund for "shovel ready" projects on EVERY EXISTING CONSTRUCTION PROJECT IN THE CITY!!! NON of them were new or a result of the slush fund, all were planned or in existence already

Same in Michigan. They essentially bought propaganda signs to erect at every construction site that was already approved or being worked on.

[proust]

Not an actual argument.

[Jane Long]

You’ve repeatedly bashed POTUS on this bill.

Getting old.

Like I said, you’ve made your point(s)...now why not sit back and see what actually happens?

[Lurkinanloomin]

Fencing is all that can be built.

[arthurus]

......!

[proust]

Because sitting back is what got us into this mess. Just trust the plan and trust Sessions, right? Let’s just see what happens.

[Louis Foxwell]

What makes you believe for one second Trump is not the man he says he is?

[OneVike]

It took a lot of investigation and follow up on comments from people I read all over the web on sites I follow. However after checking the the laws from past legislation, I became convinced this will be a good thing.

My biggest problem was the $500 million for three years to PP, but if he follows through as I know he has the right to, PP, will get noting.

[OneVike]

Not if he uses the military and treats it like a defense project.

[nikos1121]

The money is appropriated. What is used is another thing. The fact that he has the defense money he wanted is proof that he got what he wanted.

People like Ann Coulter and apparently some Senators like Rand Paul, are clueless.

[Bigg Red]

Please don’t feed the trolls.

[Ikemeister]

This is total nonsense and has been circulating for a few days now.

[Leep]

It sickens me to think what got funded by “REPUPLICANS”..particularly PP.