McConnell quashes Trumps plan to claw back spending deal

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday shot down President Trump’s call for Congress to pass a rescissions package that would cut non-defense spending included in the $1.3 omnibus spending package passed in March.

Senate Republicans have expressed skepticism about Trump’s idea since he first floated it during the Easter Recess and McConnell finally killed it this week.

The GOP leader warned that passing a privileged resolution to cut domestic non-defense spending contained in the budget deal would imperil future negotiations with Democrats.

“You can’t make an agreement one month and say, OK, we really didn’t mean it, and come back the next month and say, oh, we really didn’t mean our agreement,” McConnell told Fox News.

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/383639-mcconnell-quashes-trumps-plan-to-claw-back-spending-deal

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