“If Trump signs this bill as it currently reads, it will prove his wall comments are a sham and he never had the slightest intention of seeing it built.”
No, it will prove that he is a president with very little political support amongst the Washington establishment. If he vetoes the bill, the government shuts down on his veto. And then all Hell breaks loose and within a relatively short period of time Trump’s public support craters around the country and he gives in and signs it anyway...likely ending his presidency at that moment.
What this proves is that you cannot elect an outsider president unless that outsider has the support of the establishment in Congress and the bureaucracy in Washington D.C. and expect that president to be able to implement budgetary policy. It why they are called “the establishment”...they run things not the outsider president. They are just going to wait him out and wait for him to make the mistake that will allow them to take him out. This would be that. You have to play it out. It’s a shit sandwich and we’ve got to eat it until (of if) we can get Trump some support in Congress and clean out the bureaucracy. The dude is Spartacus fighting Rome.
Spartacus died.
If you are right. there is no hope for the Republic. And I believe you are right. I also believe now most Republicans who make it to DC are liars.
I disagree. Trump got elected by playing by his own rules. Now he's playing by the enemy's rules. He's needs to realize that unless the establishment fears him he will not get anything done.
Right now they're laughing at him.