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.

A Christian's Worldview"

[Bigg Red]

Well done.

May God bless and protect President Trump.

Go, Trump! MAGA

[JoSixChip]

This is all just crazy talk. mcconel and ryan cornered and then back stabbed Trump on this one. Trump knew it and did what was his only rational choice. You could see the defeat in his face when he signed it. I don’t believe there will be any re-channeling of money toward the wall which would certainly trigger impeachment. Trump has fallen before and risen from the ashes. Hopefully he will be able to do it again.

[Jane Long]

Bless you, OV!

You are a perfect example of what makes FR such a great site/source.

You’ve actually taken the time to do GREAT homework and research, you’ve completely digested the issue, presented your findings....and, you changed your own mind/thoughts, in the process.

You make the world a much better place. You’ve made my day!

[proust]

That’s really it. Stage one of grief is denial. People need to get out of denial and admit what happened on Friday. The pretzel logic stuff is not helping anyone.

[Lurkinanloomin]

I hope he does.
The Uniparty weasels are trying to keep the borders open and the laws unenforced, just like the with the last FOUR Presidents.

We need to Cantorize the weasels.
The swamp draining is really up to us, we have ignore endorsements of swamp creatures and remove them from office.

[OneVike]

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

Just because they put it in the bill does not force trump from doing. remember, trump is bound by the law, and the Hyde Amendment is the law. So by law, PP cannot be funded. Soo trump has his out on that.

[Responsibility2nd]

I trust Trump.

_______________________________________________

Not me. I wish Hillary was president.

signed ~

Lots of whiny FReepers.

[Steven Tyler]

President Trump Dec 21 2017 EO declared a national emergency.
One leg of the national emergency was human trafficking.
Cartel coyotes running illegals across the boarder can be deemed as human traffickers.

Time to put up a wall to stop the human traffickers

[OneVike]

I blush, :)

[proust]

I trust God. All others pay cash.

[OneVike]

Yup, as I said, it’s a matter of national defense. So now the wall can be declared a Militarily Defense project.

Hell, if Obama can have the military build Mosques in the Middle east, then damn it, Rrump can build a Wall in America.

[Jane Long]

😂👍🏼

[OneVike]

Yup, as I said, it's a matter of national defense. So now the wall can be declared a Militarily Defense project.

Hell, if Obama can have the military build Mosques in the Middle east, then damn it, RrumpTrump can build a Wall in America.

Fixed

[SaxxonWoods]

This sounds great but it’s nothing but talk until the President actually does what people are claiming he will do.

[bk1000]

“After all, what ever happened to all those “shovel ready jobs”?”

When asked, the smirking SOB just said, “well, I guess they weren’t as shovel ready as we thought...”, and that was the end of it. Nobody asked what became of the $870B.

[rllngrk33]

The Uniparty rat bastards put language in the bill prohibiting building the wall.

OK, then we can build parallel 30 foot high fences made entirely of razor wire separated by a 50 foot wide and 50 foot deep ditch filled with razor wire with remote controlled machine gun towers every couple of hundred yards.

[Jack Hammer]

Doesn’t some comedian do a funny bit about that....?

I seem to remember the punch line is, “Not Mormons, morons!”

Can’t think where I heard that.

No, wait, strike that. It was in the film “Galaxy Quest” and the line was, “Not minors, miners!”

[OneVike]

Time will tell.

We just have to be vigilant, and ready at all times

[cymbeline]

“It was an Omnibus Spending bill [which] is not the same as the Federal Budget. This bill is just a another Continuing Resolution to keep the government functioning”

Wikipedia says:

When Congress and the president fail to agree on and pass one or more of the regular appropriations bills, a continuing resolution can be passed instead. A continuing resolution continues the pre-existing appropriations at the same levels as the previous fiscal year (or with minor modifications) for a set amount of time.[

[XEHRpa]

> The Uniparty rat bastards put language in the bill prohibiting building the wall.

If I recall, the language prevents building a wall using the designs that Trump was recently testing. However, the border security folk prefer a see-through wall anyhow, so that they don’t have to be on top to see across. The “bollard fence” design is, if I recall a bunch of I-beams plunged into the ground vertically with a small (3 or 4 inch gap between them. I’m guessing that this fence design doesn’t violate the Dem wording, and is also what the border folks actually want anyway.