Sure, Trump funding Abortion and every other Leftist enterprise, but not funding the Wall, is just OTA.
If the Omnibus bill is available for us now to view, maybe we should see what is really in it.
Trump: I will never sign another omnibus.
Trump: I will never recertify Iran deal.
Trump: Dreamers have to go.
Trump: I surround myself with the best people (do I really need to list the losers he has fired?)
As Vice President Pence reminded us, we need to elect more conservatives. That’s only we’ll get the government we want - and need.
Getting mad at President Trump accomplishes nothing. And Pelosi and Schumer will give us lots more than another omnibus - they will take away our freedoms.
Let’s keep our focus and fire where it belongs - on the Democrats and turncoat squishes in the GOP and send conservatives to Washington.
The fate of our country depends upon it.
Sorry but Trump made a disastrous mistake by signing this vile monstrosity. He has lost at least 1/3 of his core support and lost an opportunity to revitalize and redefine the Republican Party with a carefully crafted veto message. The people who came out in droves to vote for him in 2016 are now disillusioned and will stay home in 2018 and 2020. The vile Democrats will reacquire power and grave harm will come to the country. There is no sugarcoating this stupidity and its aftermath.
I agree with the author. I still like Trump, especially compared to Hillary!.
My understanding is that an omnibus bill is NOT a budget and the executive branch is not constrained to spend the money according to the bill’s suggestions.
Trump was elected to stop our homeland from becoming Mexico.
On that basis he has earned an “F”.
He has fought for nothing and let the Democrats write his agenda.
We should have voted for Jeb.
He would be making the cleverest most cutting remarks
about how President Clinton was handling things!
What is the meaning and purpose of the President’s letter? A John Salisbury tweeted out this explanation. Could not find any MSM reference (of course not). The letter from the President is copied below with reference. For those who do have time, the conclusion of Mr. Salisbury . . . The President has basically told the house . . . See ya in court! For those who have given up, patriots all in the trenches, understand, North Korea has stood down, only the details follow. Up next is Iran. The President needs what he got from that bill to accomplish what is going to be confronted in the next 3 to 4 months. Hang on folks. Its show time In the meantime is this explanation correct? Freepers decide. John Salisbury account
Let's talk about what the President can and can't do for this Omnibus Bill. There's a lot of discussion both ways so let's examine how money gets allocated & spent in the US Government: 1. Congress allocates money to be spent. The President spends the allocated money. 2. Once Congress allocates money, their job is oversight of the money being spent. They don't spend the money and have no say HOW it gets spent as long as it's spent legally. That's their job to monitor with oversight. 3. Once the President is given the money with the instructions to spend it, he has a number of choices to make in spending it. There are some rules he has to follow & some of the money is fungible and some isn't. 4. However there are some other factors that are in play here. One of them is that the President has declared a Human Rights Emergency AND has notified Congress that he's invoking the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. NOTE: See Letter and Link below for reference of above statement. 5. This opens up new options. 6. By making these two declarations President Trump has just communicated that he has the authority to NOT spend any funds he doesn't deem necessary and will return them to the US Treasury. So, funds for Planned Parenthood? He can simply not allocate the funds 7. Also, these declarations make some funds fungible. For instance if he determines that building a Wall on the Southern Border is a defense against Human Trafficking? He can move funds from anywhere else in the Defense Dept Allocation & simply build the Wall.
8. Congress is powerless to stop cash reallocations on an omnibus bill AND cannot stop the DOD from taking measures under a declared Emergency. NOTE: In part the above statement needs to be challenged, 9. Despite their language in the Omnibus Bill about the Border Wall, it is trumped by the State of Emergency that Trump declared
8) (sic)So in summary - This will go to the Courts. Congress will sue the President over the Border Wall. But here's how it will play out - Congress and the President are co-equal branches with different functions. Congress allocates. The President spends. 9) (sic) The President has National Security as his Primary Responsibility and it's his job to use whatever funds and declarations he needs to for that job. No Court in this Nation (except corrupt on the take Judges) would EVER rule against a President for exercising that authority. 10) In the end the Supreme Court (yes, that's where it will end) will fully VALIDATE the President's Constitutional Authority & the Wall will be built. / Letter from President to Speaker of House You will have to find that letter. I am not good enough to do so.
Trump talks and talks and talks. But his actions and judgement are showing him to be weak.
Ryan and McConnell SCHEDULED the vote for one day before the anti-gun march so Trump could not let DC chaos occur with all park staff off work
I call BS. The laws of physics that the author seems to think apply to Republicans and Conservatives apparently just don’t apply to Democrats, do they? Barry Soetoro of Kenya was elected two times by the most gullible and dumbed-down electorate in American history. He got just about every damned thing he wanted from a congress, media, and judiciary which kept pleading with his majesty to please please please step on them, or by giving them all the finger when they didn’t. Don’t give me anymore stinking liberal fairy tales. Trump blinked first. We lost.
Manchurian Mitch McConnell is not going to do anything.
His Job #1 is to protect the Chao money empire in China, and that means colluding with Democrats to undermine President Trump.
-PJ
A veto would likely have been overridden and that would have been a ‘political’ defeat the Dems/Media/Establishment would hammer him with for the next 3 years.
1 it’s an omnibus not a budget
2 he can spend the money as HE chooses (just like obama did)
3 read the letter he wrote to McConnell and Ryan
4 read the EO declaring a national emergency (December 21)
5 democrats have been snookered
I never “lose my mind” about politicians. I have learned never to put my faith or hope in politics. Its a recipe for anger and bitterness.
Regardless, Trump simply caved on the budget. There’s no excuse. Yes, he’s still better than Clinton, but he’s proven himself an unprincipled politician and that won’t help him or the Republicans.
Very nicely stated.
It was the greatest attack on the people since 9/11. Trump sold is out!!
The bill is a bring home the bacon gift to incummbents in congress. Will help the GOP keep the majority. Trump is not on the ballot.