That’s on Congress, not on Trump.
They need to immediately follow the lead of Bill Clinton and cut welfare spending and make people work for their benefits.
[That’s on Congress, not on Trump.]
Don’t tell CNN. They’re on a HateTrump roll.
If he's not part of the solution then he's part of the problem. None of the Republicans in Washington can wash their hands on this.
“That’s on Congress, not on Trump.”
As the media said during Obama’s administration.
You said:That’s on Congress, not on Trump.
True, but Trump choked. Twice.
“That’s on Congress, not on Trump.”
It is on both the Legislative and Executive Branches.
The president has the power of the veto. To date in his presidency Trump has not vetoed a spending bill. By signing the spending bills he agrees with them. He certainly has the power to veto spending bills and insist Congress reduce budgets or remove line items of spending as a condition for signing a bill.
As to Congress the article speaks to the GOP. The ugly truth is the GOP controlled Congresses in the 21st Century have not been fiscally responsible. During the George W. Bush administration the GOP House under Speaker Dennis Hastert went “earmark” crazy doling out billions of money to the home districts of the GOP congress critters such as the infamous $400 million “bridge to nowhere” in Alaska. In addition President George W. Bush could not locate his veto pen while his Republican colleagues were on their spending spree. Lest we forget the national debt doubled during the 8 years of the Bush presidency. As a final spending gesture when leaving office Mr. Bush pushed and signed the $700 billion TARP financial relief program to bail out the banks, and bailout the auto companies as well as spread pork around the country.
In the 2008 election the citizens of the USA voted a Democrat into the White House and a Democrat House of Representatives. During the 2010 Congressional elections the Tea Party, a grass roots movement of conservative voters fed up with Obamacare, tax increases and runaway spending, helped elect a GOP House of Representatives. Under the Constitution, the House of Representatives controls the power of the purse. However, under GOP House Speakers Boehner and then Ryan, the GOP House passed gargantuan spending bills which enabled another doubling of the federal budget during the 8 years of President Obama.
When George W. Bush was elected president in 2000 the federal budget was in balance. The Republican track record with respect to fiscal policy since 2000 has been as abysmal as the Democrat record. Republicans have made no real effort to reign in spending. They have cancelled no programs and have continued the ruinous practice of establishing a high growth “baseline” budget instead of enacting a flat baseline or even reductions.
Trillion dollar deficits are a function of the 21st century dereliction of duty by both political parties. Until I see Trump take a hard line and veto spending bills I’ll assume he is part of the problem, not the solution.
Republicans had both houses of Congress from 2017-18 and the US Senate from 2019 to the present.
The Republicans have been a huge part of the problem.
Debt is going to seriously weaken this nation.