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Originally Posted by elysiantraveller
However if you think this president gives a damn about the debt or deficit I'll raise you a bunch of statements he's given verifying he doesn't.
Post wasn't anti-Trump it was me expressing satisfaction some might hold form against ballooning the debt more.
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The government officially shut down last night or early this morning until the House passed the budget bill. With 67 Republicans voting against it, the bill passed because 73 House Democrats voted for it. Imagine how bad a GOP budget bill is that can get 73 Dem votes.
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Early this morning, Congress passed and President Trump signed a deal to avert a government shutdown for another two years by basically giving the Democrats all the spending they wanted and increasing discretionary spending by $150 billion a year.
There are also reports that Republicans are working on a bill to bail out Obamacare, and we haven’t even gotten to Trump’s $1 trillion infrastructure plan yet.
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A lot of us on the right have spent the first year of the Trump administration trying to puzzle through his overall impact. On regulation and taxes, he has been much better than expected. In his personal style and messaging, he has been exactly as bad as we feared, and he never seems to learn. But on the most important issue of the era — whether or not we make peace with Big Government — he has now definitively failed.
Yet Trump is just a symptom. Republican leaders forged this agreement and passed it because the message sent by Donald Trump’s rise to the presidency is that the Republican base no longer cares about fiscal discipline or the size of government
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http://thefederalist.com/2018/02/09/...verton-window/