[Olog-hai]

Another one who abrogates the adage about diplomacy sans force being like music without instruments. Never mind Mitch suddenly forgetting about having foreign policy being “sort of dictated to” him by Obama.

[silverleaf]

Something woke up,that post turtle ?

Shame

[JayGalt]

Bye Bye Turtle.

[ManHunter]

Silly me, and here I thought foreign policy was the purview of the president - at least according to Article II of that Constitution thing...

Anyway, foreign aid has bought us a lot of support and good with countries like N. Korea, Iran, etc....

[dp0622]

I reject McConnell.

I don’t have the right to criticize coming from NY, but I don’t know why these states keep sending mcCain and McConnell and Linda and Ryan back to congress.

I heard it’s because of open primaries and/or split conservative primary vote.

[DoughtyOne]

Why is it that guys like this bastard, McCain, Graham, and Rubio can only show signs of having a back-bone, when it’s a Republican president?

I didn’t hear a peep out of them for eight freakin years, unless it was to fund terrorists or support something else whacked out Obama wanted.

This is the McConnell I’ve come to know and despise.

Between him and Ryan, who needs Democrats. These two will carry all the Democrat water they need or want.

[blueplum]

I see. Submitting a budget is ‘dictating’ ? Sit down you old doddard. It’s not about you, or congress, it’s about what American people are fed up paying for.

[Yogafist]

Is he willing to shut down the government to keep it?

[butlerweave]

Mitch and the same old same old

[Rome2000]

LOL

Either Trump or this scumbag doesn’t survive the next 4 years.

Wouldn’t bet the farm on Mitch.

AMERICA FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[deadrock]

Line item veto.

[heterosupremacist]

I have despised Senate Majority Leader Bitch McConnell for many years, yet he continues to become increasingly despicable/tiresome/ineffectual as time goes by... Team Trump needs to lay the smack down! MAGA! 8O)

[faithhopecharity]

some foreign aid for our allies, yes. but all the $$ we send overseas? no.

tin pot dicators and islamic terrorist murder gangs like PLO-pa should get no help from us at all. none.

and a lady we know just came back from emergency hospitalization for starvation, she fainted from hunger but the hospital saved her and she is home okay again. here in USA. the welfare aid is insufficient so she fed her family first and this is what happened.

[publius911]

AP Interview: McConnell rejects Trump's foreign aid cuts...

OK.
I'm sure the question must have been asked before.

What would it take to force McConnell to go away and stay away?

[Robert DeLong]

On the basis of the Constitution and traditional legislative prerogatives, Congress lays claim to exclusive control over the purse. Nevertheless, while it is up to Congress to appropriate funds, it is also true that the President and the executive branch enjoy considerable discretion as to how those funds are spent. Existing studies tell us how the President formulates the budget and how Congress acts on the budget requests he submits. Surprisingly, we know relatively little about how the money, once appropriated, is actually spent. A notable exception in this field is a work by Lucius Wilmerding, Jr., published three decades ago.

Presidential Spending Discretion and Congressional Controls

Click on the second one down that has: {PDF} Spending Discretion and Congressional Control

It will download a PDF t your computer that is approximately 30 pages from a book. Haven't fully read the PDF but I am thinking it is up to the President to actually spend the money there or not.

There are also other links that look to be promising, also of PDF's, following the one mentioned above.

[libertylover]

I’m proud to say that I voted against McConnell in the primary a couple of years ago. His opponent is not the Governor of Kentucky.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

“America being a force is a lot more than building up the Defense Department,” McConnell said.

So McConnell thinks America being a force is about handing US taxpayer dollars over to foreign governments?

[keving]

He's a little late to object to the President in the last 8 years. This is why business as usual is not accepted, C. 👍

[publius911]

McConnell said. “Diplomacy is important, extremely important, and I don’t think these reductions at the State Department are appropriate because many times diplomacy is a lot more effective — and certainly cheaper — than military engagement.”

McConnell, you ignorant senile slut!Name ONE instance in your miserable lifetime where diplomacy permanently eliminated an ongoing physical war or civil conflict which already has created tens of thousands of innocent victims directly and indirectly?

[Thank You Rush]

“”because many times diplomacy is a lot more effective””

Good golly - just name one time, Mitch. We don’t need “many times” - just one will do. PLEASE!!! What on earth is the payoff for any senator to think millions going to foreign aid is appropriate? Are his constituents in agreement with giving OUR MONEY away to foreign countries? He’s sure not advocating it to impress his voters.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Didn’t I just read here that all of these aholes think America is the “laughstock” of the world? Probably because we’re the only ones dumb enough to give taxpayer dollars away to America-hating foreigners. You can’t fix stupid.