Posted on 12/14/2019 1:31:12 PM PST by cowpoke
President Trump’s race to rack up accomplishments heading into an election year is giving conservatives heartburn, with some worried he is striking deals that include giveaways to Democrats.
Several Senate Republicans this week vented their frustration with Trump’s trade deal with Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) during meetings with the administration’s top trade official, Robert Lighthizer.
There’s also grumbling among conservative lawmakers over an agreement to expand benefits for federal workers in exchange for a costly Space Force military branch and a spending deal that is projected to add nearly $2 trillion to the deficit.
The year-end deal-making isn’t necessarily over. Negotiators are circling around a tax deal that would include an extension of earned income tax credits for low-income families who don’t pay federal taxes, a benefit typically unpopular with conservatives. "The deals are horrible. They’re bad deals,” said Brian Darling, a GOP strategist and former Senate aide. “This always happens at the end of a Congress. It’s typical of what’s happened in Congress over the years, where they wait until the end of the year, cut big deals on must-pass bills like the National Defense Authorization Act. Everything gets loaded into these bills, and nobody likes them.” One Republican senator said he and other GOP lawmakers are unsettled by Trump’s eagerness to cut deals with Democrats in recent weeks and make big concessions in order to avoid entering an election year without a solid list of legislative accomplishments.
A second Republican senator said Trump is transforming a party that over the last three years has become more associated with the president than the pro-free trade and fiscally conservative principles that defined the GOP since the Reagan years
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Who wrote this crap?
Tough $hit. Take some Rolaids.
I can’t read this with a straight face.
Sounds like more Never-Trumpers to me. Taken with a huge grain of salt.
the author and the source are listed.
Give me a break. This article takes the cake. This writer was so dense he accomplished the impossible in journalism school: He got something lower than “A”.
“Who wrote this crap?”
A Never Trumper? A leftard? Possibilities are infinite..
The president does not need to “scramble” to rack up accomplishments! What a load of schiff. As if he’s been resting and partying and now needs to look like he’s been working!!!! Crock, with a capital CROCK.
Is there anything Republicans do that Democrats won’t poopoo?
1. Building the wall
2. Tax cuts
3. Fair trade
4. Defense spending
5. Judge nominees
Need I go on?
The aspects objectionable to GOP legislators:
[Senate Republicans asked Lighthizer at a meeting on Thursday why the administration didn’t submit the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade deal to Congress for approval at the end of 2018, when Republicans still controlled the House. The U.S. trade representative explained the paperwork wasn’t ready, but his answer didn’t satisfy the critics.]
[A substantial number of Senate Republicans weren’t enthused either by Trump’s decision to give Democrats another big concession in the National Defense Authorization Act by agreeing to 12 weeks of paid parental leave for federal workers. The provision, which costs $3.3 billion over five years, was not offset by spending cuts.]
They need to name the actually fiscally conservative GOPee Senators with at least a 6 to 12 year record of same.
So far my list of FOUR things that POTUS Trump agreed to that I disagreed with:
1. When he caved on the Rat Budget deal when we had the Gubmint Shutdown. I know he said at the time he said it was to get the increase in Defense Spending, but the Rats came out looking good.
2. The Bump Stock Ban, not that I ever owned one or ever intended to.
3. The Cruise Missile Attack in Syria. Seems it was based on some “iffy” information at the time, and now it being reported that the Intel was bogus.
4. The recent Defense Budget giving Federal Workers THREE Months of PAID Family Leave when they have a Child.
Those are the things I didn’t like, but I thank God every day we have Donald J. Trump, (Donaldus Trumpius) as the POTUS. I wish my Parent’s were still alive to see this.
Never heard of him. Guy’s a first class ahole.
Does anyone ant to see a list of President Trump’s accomplishments??? I have one...
Ivanka strikes again.
And you think making Average Joe taxpayer fund the already overpaid and underworked federal workers’ months of “paid parental leave” as a glorious new perk is a good idea???
And you’re all in on months of paid parental leave being handed over to the already overpaid federal workers, right along with Ivanka?
“Who wrote this crap?”
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I chalk it up to the media’s usual habit of inventing stories about how conservatives really hate Trump. Then they usually add in, as proof, a quote from Romney of some other RINO. Heh.
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