Trump may have seen the writing on the wall when he presented his reduced-spending budget to Congress, which shrugged and tossed it in the trash can. Congress thinks checks and balances mean they can write all the checks they want, and it will balance out after they have left office, wealthy.
Politics remains the art of the possible. Primarying these buggers out of office also remains possible.
On the surface it looks stupid and treasonous (as Republican sell out to Republicans), but we are in SUCH unknown waters with President Trump, it's hard (for me, anyway) to play his brand of 3D chess.
I just have to have faith that he is advised up the wazoo with people that know a lot more than most of us, and that his one year record of accomplishment has, if nothing else, shown what shooting for the moon but just getting to the yop of the tree looks like.
It's not so bad, imo.
More jobs is more tax revenue and (I want to think) an easement down the road.