Trump's tell-all budget – Three big lines in the sand separate the president from the progressives

Fox News ^ | 13 Mar 2019 | James Jay Carafano

[E. Pluribus Unum]

To the surprise of no one, Democrats in both chambers of Congress pronounced President Trump’s 2020 budget proposal dead-on-arrival.

Presidents propose budgets, but it’s Congress that actually writes them, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would rather dine on a mixed salad with razorblades than take advice from Trump. On anything.

Here is how I believe this year’s budget battle will likely work out.

Pelosi will never pass Trump’s budget. She might not even be able to pass her own budget, given the myriad and seemingly insatiable progressive demands in the House. Even if the House manages to pass a budget, it seems highly unlikely that they would be able to reconcile their budgetary differences with the Senate.

Rather than deliver a 2020 budget, therefore, Congress will likely wind up passing a series of continuing resolutions that keep the government chugging along. Perhaps, later this year they’ll wrap it all together in a bloated omnibus compromise bill.

Both parties know it will end this way. So why bother submitting a presidential budget at all?

The answer is that the budgets put together by both sides are more messaging documents than spending plans. Both President Trump and his progressive opponents use these documents to frame their differences as starkly as possible in preparation for the 2020 elections and give voters the choice of which policy priorities to pursue.

So what are the defining priorities evident in the Trump budget? On security, it is easy to spot the three big lines in the sand separating him from the progressives.

[eyeamok]

President Trump,

Until the WALL is Fully Funded and Under Construction, All legislation sent to me shall require a 2/3rds majority to pass, because I vow to VETO EVERYTHING,. Screw all of you.

[RebelTXRose]

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