Posted on 04/10/2018 1:25:41 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The Senate’s top Republican said Tuesday that he’s open to a proposal from the White House to pare back a hard-fought spending package that has come under assault from party conservatives.
But at the same time, Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell said the idea of cutting billions of dollars of just-approved spending may not have enough support to pass the narrowly divided Senate.
The idea is being floated by the Trump White House with support from top Republicans like House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, though it’s clear that there isn’t enough support to pass such a package through Congress. Several Republicans on the Appropriations Committee, including Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, say they’re against the idea.
“It’s going nowhere,” Graham said. “We made a deal.”
On Tuesday, McConnell, who supervised the lengthy talks that produced last month’s $1.3 trillion government spending bill, said he’s open to considering the idea.
“It’s no secret that the omnibus bill was larger than most Republicans would like. But it was a bipartisan negotiation,” McConnell told reporters. “Having said that, I’m willing to discuss with the administration the possibility of some kind of a rescissions package. I think it’s worth a discussion. Whether that’s achievable is another matter.” …
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but will he , na ,don’t be so silly
McConnell has achieved the establishment goal, damage Trump. So, now he’s willing to deal a bit, in an effort to save some Republicans this fall.
Traitor. Defend your president.
Probably to save his own job. He clearly does not regard the GOP as a separate entity from the Uniparty.
So Mitch, were you thinking like trimming a fingernail, or more along the lines of donating a kidney?
Fire every one of them at the ballot box. It’s the only way. Every republican that refuses to support their president, every democrat that wipes his ass with the constitution, send them all home. It won’t be easy but it’s what needs to be done.
They just want to be able to say “well, we tried”. Scum
Too late Turtle.
You have now pissed of your base and we won’t forget you helped make it happen
“Senate’s top Republican said Tuesday that he’s open to a proposal from the White House to pare back a hard-fought spending package........”
May he and Ryan can merge efforts and stop funding the Mueller “witch hunt”, it would save a lot of money.
Theater, nothing, but theater.
Sure...he’ll support recissions as long as McConnell’s donors, Schumer and/or China don’t object.
Need to move appropriations bills to simple majority passage in the same way tax bills can go through under special reconciliation rules.
only a fool would still believe anything this DC swamp POS has to say
#%^#$*!!!
Looks like donations are down after the McConnell / Ryan all time budget breaking spending bill. So McConnell has to do a little kabuki dance where he pretends he wants to fix it if only the democrats would let him but he’s gonna work darned hard, darned hard ineed! When the checks start rolling in again he’ll never mention this again.
Yet another opportunity to reinforce President Trump blown by traitorous gop.
gop willingly committing suicide to turn the reins over to democrats.
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