Posted on 05/01/2017 9:24:32 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A deal has been reached on a $1 trillion-plus bill to fund the government for the final five months of this fiscal year, an agreement that is likely to avert a government shutdown.
Congressional negotiators had been working through the weekend to hash out the last remaining complications in a bill to fund the government before the agreement was announced Sunday night.
After President Donald Trump backed down on funding for the construction of a border wall, some additional sticking points remained, including health benefits for coal miners, funding for Puerto Rico and an additional $30 billion for defense, delaying congressional negotiators and causing them to miss their deadline of last Friday. Congress passed and Trump signed into law a one-week extension to keep the government open and give negotiators more time.
The newly reached deal includes an additional $15 billion in defense spending, less than what Trump asked for, but still $25 billion more than last year's spending. It also includes a permanent fix to fund coal miners' health care instead of a temporary extension.
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York called the deal "a good agreement for the American people" that "takes the threat of a government shutdown off the table."
"The bill ensures taxpayer dollars aren't used to fund an ineffective border wall, excludes poison pill riders and increases investments in programs that the middle-class relies on, like medical research, education and infrastructure," Schumer said Sunday night.
"Early on in this debate, Democrats clearly laid out our principles," he said. "At the end of the day, this is an agreement that reflects those principles."
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
VETO
You apparently don’t get my reference
Pauline is Jon Ossoff’s body double....just shortening my reference
“Trump doesn’t want a shutdown anymore than Ryan and McConnell do.
He will sign it happily.”
Looks like it. Sean Spicer, briefing now, just said the President got a lot from the bill. They are playing this as a win.
He isn’t going to veto this.
I remember very clearly that Cruz SHUT DOWN the government trying to stop Obamacare, the one law most responsible for our huge increased spending.
Sorry. I missed it. I go by Jon’s signs all the time.
I am kind of worked up over the budget deal.
I DETEST the GOP-e
Trump should veto this, or he got rolled worse than Reagan on amnesty / the Dems cutting spending. Cretin.
I'm beginning to think he's in over his head, or he was a plant.
This bill funds Sanctuary Cities AND Klanned Barrenhood.
Even *given* that this was a continuing resolution, Dafuq is wrong with him?
(We know Ryan and McConnell are Dem moles. But what's Trump's problem trusting them?)
Rush just said there’s actually something in the budget restricting money for going to the wall... and the Republicans are just fine with that.
Spicer seems unhappy... I think he gets We the People better than anyone in the WH.
“Early on in this debate, Democrats clearly laid out our principles,” [Schumer] said. “At the end of the day, this is an agreement that reflects those principles.”
That’s a relief! It’s good that the Democrats are happy and get something that “reflects [their] principles”.
Heaven forbid conservatives/Republicans get something that reflects THEIR principles. Because that would be bad.
Because the Democrats say so.
Yeah we get increased Defense spending but that’s about it that I see. No wall. No Obamacare repeal. As far as I understand too, funding for Planned Barrenhood remains.
So all in all a sucky deal. But not one I’m surprised to see sadly. If anyone is so surprised you need to come back to reality. The tomfoolery of the campaign is over. Time to join the real world.
This is why I can say with a “clear conscience” I’m still happy with Trump to this day. I have low expectations for him because I live in the real world. He will never get the wall built. He will never repeal Obamacare in substance.
Those last two sentences are facts because they require Congressional interaction and cooperation not simply executive orders or some such. And I’ve never entertained any fantasy that Trump is some great negotiator despite his self-serving assertions to the contrary. A fair one, perhaps at times a good one (can’t succeed in business without being at least somewhat good at negotiation). But a modern day Sun Tzu of negotiation? Not a chance. So those two campaign promises (Obamacare repeal and the wall) are never happeneing.
Once you accept these realistic facts it becomes much easier to enjoy his presidency. Because make no mistake he’s doing a lot of good for the conservative cause. More than I thought he would to be honest. But I’m happily surprised of course.
Just accept reality and life becomes easier.
Not sure why you and others thought he would.
Was it those posts here about him demanding funding for the Wall in the budget? I saw those.
I didn't buy it at all.
That was just to show that he cares, like those Paul Ryan budget resolutions. Like his own budget proposal.
What a plus.
Cruz couldn’t lead his way out of wet paper bag. The only thing he’s good at is being a backstabbing sore loser. He and his gang of pimple-d!ck nevertrumpers are in for a reckoning
The more I see, the more I realize our government is fundamentally broken and I don’t think any amount of elections will fix it. It goes to show what little power the president has when he’s not on the side of evil...
“Looks like it. Sean Spicer, briefing now, just said the President got a lot from the bill. They are playing this as a win.
He isn’t going to veto this.”
Everything the RATS love gets funded.
What we elected Trump for doesn’t.
And this is supposed to be considered a “win”?
What do you do when it’s one guy against the entire corrupt, one-world government... and that one guy seems to fold?
RE: Cruz couldn’t lead his way out of wet paper bag
How do you know that? Has he ever been given the chance to lead?
And again, you seem to be ignoring his RECORD fighting against Obamacare.
As for the Wall, He just introduced the EL CHAPO Act to take the money seized from the drug cartels to fund it (In support to Donald Trump I might add):
http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/04/26/ted-cruz-el-chapo-money-should-pay-mexico-border-wall
What more should he do?
If these are the actions of a wet paper bag, give me more of them.
Maybe he meant that Ted Cruz has all the personality of a wet paper bag. In other words, he’s a repellent human being and could NEVER get the majority of people behind him in the way Trump did.
If THAT guy is our best hope - there’s no hope.
Do you think Trump “trusts” them? I don’t. But I’m not sure how many options he has. If he vetoes it, and shuts down government-—which I’m fine with, BTW-—what do you think is the end game? Do you think the RINO/Dems cave and say, “OK, we’ll fund what you want?”
I don’t. I think at best Trump can win a shutdown by eliminating spending, agencies, etc. But that won’t GIVE him funding for the Wall or give him the tax cuts. So I don’t know.
Yeah....
Count copulot could be ‘leading’ his fellow neverTrumpers in the senate and congress to get on board the Trump agenda. He’s doing the opposite.
The creative ways to fund the wall is just so much laughable smoke and mirrors after the 30 plus trillion dollars spent under the treason regime, funded by these same capon repubikans in congress.
They’re saying they can’t fund or won’t fund the wall in order to protect the American people from foreign invasion. Their reason for being. A big middle finger to the American people.
Raphael is a total joke....his rump-swabs are even more pathetic.
Sure it would.
He could unilaterally remove Kennedy's executive order allowing Fed employees to unionize. Then start firing entire agencies up through the cabinet level.
See who squeals then.
DACA.
Syrians still being admitted, Ivanka pushing for more.
Klanned Barrenhood.
Funding NPR.
No funding for the wall.
Hillary still unindicted.
Comey still in place.
Slow crawl on any dept.heads and still infested with Obama moles.
Schumer running the agenda.
Liberals still in charge of the Federal reserve, trying to strangle any recovery in the cradle by announcing planned interest rate hikes.
The dictator still in power in North Korea.
Turkey becoming an Islamic state.
Obamacare still in place, beginning to crater.
Against this? We replaced Scalia with another conservative.
Trump needs to learn how to govern: and that includes being more forceful than mere Tweets, which have diminished in effectiveness as they lose shock value.
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