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GOP senator: Trump budget 'dead on arrival' (Lindsey Graham)
The Hill ^ | 02/28/17 12:43 PM EST | Sylvan Lane

Posted on 02/28/2017 10:38:54 AM PST by BradtotheBone

Sen. Lindsey Graham

(R-S.C.) said Tuesday that President Trump’s first budget was “dead on arrival” and wouldn’t make it through Congress.

“It's not going to happen,” said Graham, according to NBC News. “It would be a disaster."

Graham, a frequent Trump critic, expressed concerns with Trump’s proposed cuts to the State Department budget, especially the targeting of foreign aid.

Trump will propose $54 billion in cuts to fund an equivalent boost in defense spending, White House officials said Monday. The administration will make massive cuts from the Environmental Protection Agency and State Department, even though both of their budgets combined barely come close to the Trump’s proposed defense hike. Graham said significant State Department cuts would endanger American Foreign Service officers.

"A budget this lean would put those who serve overseas for the State Department at risk,” said Graham. “And it's not going to happen."

Trump’s first budget proposal, slated to be released March 16, lacks key details but is already stoking bipartisan concern.

Senate Foreign Relations Committee members in both parties have spoken out against Trump’s proposed foreign aid cuts, defending the necessity of funding development projects in needy nations.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Government; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: 115th; first100days; trump45; trumpbudget
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To: BradtotheBone

Id call them Benedict Lindsay and Benedict McCain but it’s more like Beadick Lindsey and Beadick McCain ... these two worthless sacks of s-— have to go


41 posted on 02/28/2017 11:11:37 AM PST by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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To: BradtotheBone; All

These assholes who insist on foreign aid to “developing counties” that have not been developed in my 70 years on this planet due to corruption, can forfeit their own salaries to the cause.


42 posted on 02/28/2017 11:14:06 AM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: BradtotheBone

“And it’s not going to happen.”

Yeah, Graham says that a lot. After all, he and McCain are the two major leaders of the defeatist “can’t do” branch of the GOP.

And speaking of DOA, that’s gonna be the case for Graham during his next primary run.


43 posted on 02/28/2017 11:14:34 AM PST by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: TakebackGOP

Who, Trump or Graham?


44 posted on 02/28/2017 11:14:39 AM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: upchuck

“Open primaries are a big problem here in SC. The RATS cross over and make sure linda wins the primary.”

Does he get 100% Dem votes and nothing else? No?

Then it’s the GOPers down there that elect him.

The right down there also love to split votes, so they get what they ask for.


45 posted on 02/28/2017 11:14:46 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Col Frank Slade

Time to make those phone calls to remind them who voted for Trump and what their job is now!


46 posted on 02/28/2017 11:15:06 AM PST by browniexyz
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To: BradtotheBone

Why is it that Linda’s brain always seems to be dead on arrival?


47 posted on 02/28/2017 11:18:04 AM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: BradtotheBone

ESAD, Linda Gramnesty.


48 posted on 02/28/2017 11:19:47 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Hey, news media.....TRUMP in 2020. Because, F--- You!)
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To: VanDeKoik
Does he get 100% Dem votes and nothing else? No?

The 'rats don't oppose him in the general. He is their guy.

As to the primary, the Uniparty makes sure to put up plenty of straw candidates to make sure that no legitimate opponent gets enough of a plurality to beat linda.

It really is the 'rats that elect (him|her|it).

49 posted on 02/28/2017 11:20:43 AM PST by thulldud
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To: BradtotheBone

I think it is quite likely that large majorities in the present Congress oppose Trump on almost everything.

Trump and Bannon must figure out, quickly, if they want to ditch the GOP altogether and run their own guys in 2018.


50 posted on 02/28/2017 11:23:27 AM PST by Jim Noble (Die Gedanken sind Frei)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
He/she is a Democrat in an R jersey

Irrelevant. There are many more like him.

The proposed Trump budget will have strong opposition from both Republicans and democrats in Congress.

51 posted on 02/28/2017 11:24:54 AM PST by Jim Noble (Die Gedanken sind Frei)
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To: apillar

Ha. That chicken sh@t got out before Trump steam rolled him
in his own home state.


52 posted on 02/28/2017 11:27:23 AM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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To: BradtotheBone
Graham said significant State Department cuts would endanger American Foreign Service officers.

Hmmmm...so our people are not endanger as long as we cough up money??? Is that what Graham is saying?

53 posted on 02/28/2017 11:27:44 AM PST by HarleyD
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To: WENDLE

Let’s just say that the Palmettos and the Grand Canyoners must know something we don’t. But I doubt they do.


54 posted on 02/28/2017 11:27:59 AM PST by Theodore R. (Let's not squander the golden opportunity of 2017.)
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To: BradtotheBone

Increase in defense budget? Does it allocate more money for veteran services? What about base pay for enlisted personnel? I am not in favor of increasing the DOD budget in order to increase our presence in foreign conflicts. But to provide necessary equipment and services for existing troops and our veterans is long over due.


55 posted on 02/28/2017 11:28:50 AM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: BradtotheBone

Why does Az have 3 senators and SC only 1?

Because Lindsey Grahams lips are stuck on John McCain’s ass.


56 posted on 02/28/2017 11:29:17 AM PST by MNJohnnie ("The political class is a bureaucracy designed to perpetuate itself" Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Moonman62

Haiti? What Haiti?


57 posted on 02/28/2017 11:30:21 AM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: apillar

Hey, Lindsey, couldn’t you come up with something a little less trite than the phrase “dead on arrival” in describing a budget proposal?


58 posted on 02/28/2017 11:31:01 AM PST by Walrus (Those who work should eat better than those who don't)
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To: BradtotheBone

Did Lindsey ever say this about any of bammy’s budgets??


59 posted on 02/28/2017 11:32:03 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: Jim Noble

Way too many of them.
McCain, Corker, Hatch, Heller, Hoven, Rubio, Murkowsky and Flake all voted for Gang of Amnesty and need to be replaced with people who will uphold the laws.


60 posted on 02/28/2017 11:33:10 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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