Posted on 03/24/2018 2:45:13 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
President Trump faces losing support from his base in the wake of his decision Friday to sign a controversial and much-derided $1.3 trillion spending bill -- over not only its size but its failure to fund his campaign promise of a wall on the U.S. southern border.
Trump briefly threatened to veto the legislation, voted through the House and Senate on Thursday and early Friday in order to avoid a government shutdown.
Conservatives balked at the $1.3 trillion price tag, as well as the failure to promote Republican causes such as the defunding of Planned Parenthood and the funding of the wall on the southern border in particular. While the legislation served up $1.6 billion for border security, it mainly consisted of repairs and additions to already existing fencing.
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Veto w/override would allow him to keep more of his supporters happy. “I tried my best...”, etc.. Midterms & re-election chance odds are worse now.
By “these people” do you mean us, the voters, or did you forget the sarcasm tag?
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Mega-foolish!
Anything but Trump “next time” would be the end of any hope of freedom.
Sometimes its really hard to believe how stupid people can be.
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Sure. Why should we criticize funding sanctuary cities and a congressional raise. That would be foolish on our part.
Here comes the fair weather long knives, again...
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You and I are cats, but a big bunch are sheep!
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Rolled by Trump? I need some of what you are smoking’, Mysonsrdoctors.
He could have vetoed this piece of legislative effluent, and forced the House and Senate to override...if they could get it done.
That would have cost him NOTHING with his base.
But that is relying on Ryan and McConnell .
And of course when he was looking at them, I believe he agreed or at least saw the logic to it.
But in that case they could have let it die so they could then use it against him.
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Veto override might include a ton of other stuff we would hate even more.
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And if we kill terrorists, we’ll make them even more angry.
“If you vote for the “D”, you will get the same only worse.”
That is the problem. We have to elect Conservatives however they are scarce on the Republican ballots.
They also stood tall for the globalist Chamber of Commerce.
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Yep Trump forced them to fund PlannedBarrenhood and a ton of leftist crap!
(MysonsRsmartenoughtostayawayfromDukturs)
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As if they give a crap what we mere peons think...
This is the most discouraging thing he did so far. I just can’t understand why the republicans and he did this? Aside from the global elites taking their masks off.
The bottom line is that if we elect enough conservatives to pass the bill without the Democrats then this won’t happen.
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Some wall sections will have to be solid so that the Border Patrol can find cover if under heavy attack.
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