No. If not, it’s pure genius: use the promise of wasteful spending to get Democrats on board to pass the budget, then eliminate the same spending afterwards without them.
Authorize $1.3 trillion and claw back $15 billion and you're calling that genius? Really? I would call it a joke.
We are seeing an economy that is doing the best it has done in decades. Unemployment is at record lows. Business profits have never been higher. And we're on course to run a $1 trillion plus deficit. In economic times like this deficits should be falling, not rising. These are times when you should be running a surplus because government revenues should be at their highest. Yet our deficit is expected be at Obama-levels. What will happen during the inevitable economic downturn? Deficits of $2 trillion? $3 trillion? Congress has to stop kicking the can down the road. We're approaching the end of it.
Receipts totaled $1,499 billion during the first six months of fiscal year 2018, CBO estimates—$26 billion more than during the same period last year. That increase resulted from changes in receipts from the following sources: