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The Democrats are cheering. They got everything they wanted. The NeverTrumpers are swearing. They expected Trump to sign the bill that nearly gives Democrats everything that they wanted because they think Trump is actually a Democrat. Conservatives are upset. They wanted President Trump to veto the massive, trillions upon trillions-plus omnibus package, which will be in place for the rest of his presidential term, economic monstrosity.
President Trump admitted it was a horrible deal, but he signed it for the military spending.
He should have vetoed it.
President Trump claimed if he had a line-item veto, it would've been different. He urged for Congress to give him that kind of authority.
Constitution lesson: Congress cannot give the President that kind of authority. It would require a constitutional amendment ratified by the States. Besides, do you really want to give the President of the United States that kind of unilateral power? Let me rephrase that. Would you want Hillary Clinton as President to have a line-item veto power with a Republican Congress that doesn't have enough votes to override those vetoes?
Let's not open the line-item veto Pandora's Box.
What should happen is Congress should present each spending item as separate bills. In other words, a military spending package. A domestic spending package. An aide package. Etc.
The problem is, it all gets put together because of deals between congress-critters, and hidden inserts. And, they wait until the midnight hour before a shutdown on purpose. How can you reject it with a government shutdown looming?
It's an establishment game, and Trump fell for it.
He's a quick study. I don't believe he'll fall for this garbage again . . . that is if he gets another chance.
One thing is for sure - this omnibus, and Trump's decision not to veto it, may have placed the GOP's chances in 2018 in jeopardy, and his reelection bid in 2020 in danger. The base is angry, and they should be.
I have been chalking it up to the idea that Trump figured he was at least getting military spending that he wouldn't normally get, but the Planned Parenthood funding and lack of funding for the wall is unacceptable.
Conservatives have every reason to be angry about today's omnibus, and the fact that Trump decided not to veto it.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
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"Let’s look at my list. Continuing entitlement programs? Check. Growing interference in health care? Check. ObamaCare has not been repealed and won’t be. Imposing disastrous tariffs? Checkity-check check. I said goodbye in May 2016, but many more said goodbye on Friday, when Trump signed the absurd omnibus bill, ballooning the deficit and funding Planned Parenthood and sanctuary cities. To those people, I say: Welcome to the ranks of the disaffected! For the longest time, many have treated any critic of Trump like monsters. But I’m not a monster. I’m just ahead of the curve. What’s amazing to me is that people kept telling us Trump critics that we had 'changed' because we didn’t support Trump. We were lining up with leftists! And our response was: we opposed ridiculous spending before and we opposed it now. We opposed disastrous tariffs before and we oppose them now. We opposed entitlements before and we opposed them now. So how is it that we changed? Isn’t it obvious that, by following Trump down his destructive path, Trump supporters are the ones who changed?" https://www.redstate.com/patterico/2018/03/25/wapo-trumpism-now-defines-republican-party/
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