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!
good post NIKK
TO MANY promises broken NIKK, still have OCARE, NO WALL (which is why he won), PP still funded evangelicals WILL NOT VOTE for Trump again OR give the house and Senate ANOTHER chance!!!! THEY WILL stay home I am TOTALLY disgusted, Trump DID NOT win this election on more funding for the military although it IS important, he won because of THE WALL plain and simple AND doing away with OCARE!!!! The BASE at this point DONT CARE anymore and I guarantee you Trump just GAVE the house AND senate to the Dems, Republican voters ARE DONE and disgusted BEYOND REPAIR!!!!!
He may not have been able to overcome the votes to override his veto BUT he didn’t even show the base he was WILLING to use the veto pen, if both houses overrode his veto so be it, BUT at the VERY LEAST he VETOED THE DAMNED MONSTROSITY!!!!! Right now the DEMS are jumping up and down with joy and WE once again got the MIDDLE FINGER!!!!
Not this chicka.
As a matter of fact, I'll be getting much more involved in politics.
This is MY country and the one I hope to pass along INTACT to my children and grandchildren.
I will not complain about this President who has taken on the awful burden of trying to save our country when he didn't have to.
Truly, God only knows what sufferings he's enduring and has been enduring for all of us.
At this moment of his most difficult compromise (necessary for our military, which I, for one, want to keep) I will not turn my back on him.
Did we expect to go and vote and then get back on with our lives while Superman saved us all?
Well, if we did we've now learned that we were not living in reality but only in hope.
President Trump is fighting our and our children's civil war for the life of our country and we owe him our help.
Now is the time for all of us to look inside and figure out what God is calling us to do and then to do it.
I detest politics but I will not sit idly by and let my country be tossed to the dogs.
Our president needs our help now more than ever before and I stand with him.
May God bless and keep you, President Trump, and may He give you his peace.
Bill Mitchell Verified account @mitchellvii 1h1 hour ago
As a Republican, will you stay home in November because of the #Omnibus, knowing that you will assure Democrat victory and far WORSE budgets in the future?
24% I'll stay home.
76% I'll vote.