Posted on 02/14/2019 12:31:44 PM PST by mdittmar
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress rolled toward resolving its border security brawl with President Donald Trump in uncommonly bipartisan fashion Thursday, preparing to approve a compromise averting a new government shutdown this weekend but providing a mere sliver of the billions Trump has demanded for a wall with Mexico.
With Trump’s halfhearted signature widely expected but not yet guaranteed, the Democratic-controlled House was poised to pass the sweeping measure Thursday evening, and the Republican-led Senate was expected to approve as well. Bargainers formally completed the accord moments before midnight Wednesday night.
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This omnibus is a disaster beyond what you begin to understand.
Such misguided analysis...
Thank you for confirming my parting comment.
Folks, he had no chance whatsoever to kill that bill.
We have 52 Senators and all but 14 to 16 voted for this bill.
If he had somehow doubled those numbers, they still would have had at least 68 votes to override.
Why should Trump force them to demonstrate his weakness here?
Yada yada yada....Trump stated he knows that they will shop a judge to stop it and it will end up in SCOTUS where he expects to win -especially since there are already Congress-made precedents giving him the authority, along with existing declarations of national emergencies still in place by Bush and Obama. Once/if that happens, they will have a hell of a time keeping him from steam-rolling them.
My “vacuous criticisms based on ignorance” are based on the reality of what he is facing - if reality is “vacuous” then you win... but it seems that wishful pipe dreams are what all the wadded-panty concern trolls are calling “cogent arguments”.
You ignore the whole picture. Look how the bill floods us with people and ties Trump’s hands.
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