[TwelveOfTwenty]

Bingo. Failing to reel in overspending has been my major disappointment with President Trump so far.

I would like to see him tell Congress that they pass a balanced budget or he'll veto it. Let the Democrats and RINOs own the shutdown if they don't.

[DannyTN]

Trump has to pick his battles. If he made total spending the issue out of the gate, Congress would have followed Paul Ryan's lead and cut entitlements without ever addressing the economy. And that would have doomed the Republicans for the next 10 years. We probably would have lost the senate and Trump would be facing impeachment by democrats. And Trunp probably wouldn't have gotten the tax cuts. He probably would have been opposed on every little thing. Look at the accomplishment's Trump has done.

• Repealed the obamacare mandate. Now it's unconstitutional and Congress has to deal with it.
• Tax cuts have helped the economy.
• Regulations have been cut.
• Protective tariffs are up at least temporarily.
• Immigration from terrorist countries has been thwarted.
• Immigration process has been permanently changed.
• A wall is going up.
• Food Stamps is down thanks to employment
• We're getting out of Syria and Afghanistan.
• We're getting NATO to pay.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“Bingo. Failing to reel in overspending has been my major disappointment with President Trump so far.”

When he’s running for his next term, I REALLY want to hear:

“Well, now that all of the ‘Russia! Russia! Russia!’ B.S. is over and done with, NOW we’ll work on getting our finances in order!”

He has not disappointed me, yet. MAGA! :)

[dp0622]

I think they get into office, take a look at SS/medicare/military/social welfare programs and just throw their hands up.

No one wants to sacrifice.

Kennedy, who i don’t particularly like, was right when he said “ask not...”

That doesn’t apply anymore.