Posted on 06/03/2023 9:43:25 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Total weasel move by Trump comment on something after an event he might have influenced when the the debate is over
Already outdated.
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You’d be right if he hadn’t indicated willingness to default temporarily in the past... But he has said that many times... Article is not accurate in depicting Trump’s comments as only coming after the vote.
Trump is good on a lot of things. History has shown that.
But when he was president, he did next to nothing to rein in spending.
Sad to say, but in this instance he’s part of the problem.
So who could get it right? The only person I can think of is Rand Paul. But if he were president, would he let himself be squeezed as Trump did?
This late in the game, no amount of cuts is going to fix this. We have to let it crash & burn, unfortunately, and rebuild from scratch and on Constitutional principles. It’s going to suck, but the Fed Reserve has to end. And it’s going to end ugly. That’s why I think secretly Trump is all for the spending (he was the one out front asking why we didn’t give every citizen $2000 for the first COVID payment versus $600, btw) in order to let them hang themselves when it falls apart.
” including the GOP front-runner, former president Donald Trump, who said he would have allowed the country to default. “
His record says otherwise!
He even got bent out of shape with republicans that voted against his $2.2 billion slush fund.
He may have kept out of the public debate out of deference to Speaker of the House McCarthy.
The House being the bona fide constitutional originator of spending bills, and McCarthy having had Trump’s full-throated support and endorsement during the run-up to his election as speaker, this approach is not hard to explain.
Nor does it smack of a lack of courage, as Trump would surely have been having regular room-trmpetature private conversations with McCarthy (as he surely never had as Prexy with Paul Ryan) the whole time the raise-the-debt-ceiling debate was playing out in public.
Rein in spending??
Blame who spent it. Paul Ryan and Nancy Pelosi. The y wouldn’t give Trump anything for covid unless he took their entire stinking budgets.
It’s not a great deal, but it’s a good deal given our divided government. This was also only one battle. Elect more conservatives and real change can be attempted. Until then, it’s a bit ridiculous to blame McCarthy for having to compromise. Just to be clear, we don’t control the US Senate or presidency. We barely control the house.
like he understands what it even means....
The DOJ would have indicted him on conspiracy to interfere in official proceedings in a hot minute. lol.
Trump commented and was in the news many times before a deal was struck.
You need to search bro
Trump gave us omnibus spending bills as POTUS. Didn’t matter if it was Ryan or Pelosi he didn’t go with he default.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries says he will support debt ceiling bill "without hesitation, reservation or trepidation."
WHAT?? You mean he actually took time out from insulting DeSantis to talk about something relevant, holy bleep.
Trump would not let this happen unless it was part of the plan.
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