I’m going to go read, need to calm down, want to do someone bodily harm.
Might even watch “Darkest Hour” but that might not be what I need right now.
President Trump is a master negotiator. He looked at this budget and realized, given this divided Congress, it was the best deal he was going to get while preserving his #1 priority, $700 billion for defense spending. Sucks but there it is. Real world.
Our chances of attaining a SuperMajority in the Senate have just INCREASED, not decreased.
Democrat Senators in red states are sweating more today than a week ago.
We're in the 1st quarter of a 4 quarter game. Don't leave the stadium because we didn't score a touchdown.
The worst would not have gotten $700 billion for defense.
Why does everyone keep discounting that major achievement as nothing?
Assume for a minute Trump had vetoed this bill, then what? Shut down the government? This was a bipartisan bill, so the blame for the shutdown would fall squarely on Trump, weakening him for the future.
Eventually he would have to cave and sign an even worse deal.
Whenever you say, "Trump should have done this!," you have to also ask then question - "then what?"
If you are so sure Trump should have vetoed this bipartisan bill, what would happen next?
Would he ever have gotten a better deal than he has now? With THIS Congress? Unlikely.
HELP ME UNDERSTAND THIS LOGIC:
To protest Trump signing the Omnibus bill, your plan is to stay home in November, assuring Democrat majorities? The next budget would then be worse WITHOUT $700 billion for the military!