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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Faux may also report that nobody even had a chance to read the 2000+ pages of this monstrosity before voting on it. Dozens of unelected and unaccountable staffers wrote it tainted with their own personal agendas!
Decidedly unAmerican and probably unConstitutional and illegal.
Let them shut down the government, but don’t vote for something you haven’t read!
Anyone ignorant enough to abandon their support for President Trump based on him signing a bloated 6-month spending bill—whil he's fighting an attempted coup by the Deep State—has utterly no sense of perspective.
Indeed, such a person is simply indulging their #NeverTrump impulses.
I opposed this ridiculous spending bill—an overwhelming number of Deplorables did—but I'm not about to stop supporting this President simply because of that. That is abject insanity.
President Trump has earned our trust a dozen times over during the last two years—and he has access to much more information than the resident FR armchair quarterbacks. I trust President Trump's judgement—certainly moreso than knee-jerk second-guessers who seek to make the perfect the enemy of the good—and he deserves the benefit of the doubt.
To review: there's a pervasive coup attempt underway by the Uniparty Swamp, for God's sake! Dropping one's support for President Trump under such circumstances makes one a newly-minted, de facto #NeverTrumper.
#NeverTrump is as #NeverTrump does...
Here, here.
What u said.
Aside from tax reform, exactly what big agenda items have passed this Congress?
He got rolled and we got screwed.
Yes.
The 1974 act and subsequent amendments are codified in 2 USC Sections 601 through 688. I haven’t gone through in detail but it appears 683 and 684 provide the process for the President to request rescission by a “special message” and at least section 688 governs the expedited process for consideration in each house and committee. Debate and amendment rules appear quite strict. Appears everything is a majority vote. No threat of filibuster appears available.
Generally, I concur, but the procedural language is beyond my understanding at the present.
Sometimes, great notions are picked up by external media from FR.
It would be reassuring to hear at least a discussion of the possibility of reversals of some of the most egregious appropriations that we've just learned that were passed.
Will this prospect get a hearing from Rush? Tucker? Senator Ryan? We can only hope.
(Again, Ryan = meaning Senator Rand Paul).
Rescission requests would need to be specific. Trying to rescind the whole omnibus would be wasted effort and worse once a special request is made and fails it cannot be made again. Better to pick things off one at a time.e.g. planned parenthood. While we would like it totally defended realistically try cutting it in half.
For example, Senator Schumer could claim credit for delivering to his constituents, half a tunnel (into the Hudson River).
A “rescission act” would actually Be in the form of “special request” from the President per 2 USC 28E or 284 detailing the appropriated amount. I see no reason it would not apply to items funded by the omnibus. Key is to make such requests particular as only one bite at the apple. If request fails can’t make another request against a budgeted item that has a prior failed request.
For example go after planned parenthood in one request. Go after funding for hermit crab studies in a different request
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Thanks for the heads up
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