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applegrove

(118,659 posts)
Sun Apr 28, 2019, 07:53 PM Apr 2019

Trump's $2 Trillion Spending Dream

Trump’s $2 Trillion Spending Dream

April 28, 2019 at 7:27 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 7 COMMENTS

https://politicalwire.com/2019/04/28/trumps-2-trillion-spending-dream/

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“At last month’s St. Patrick’s Day lunch in the Capitol, President Trump told Richard Neal, the powerful Democratic chairman of the House’s tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, that he wants to spend close to $2 trillion on infrastructure,” Axiosreports.

“A former senior White House official told me that on infrastructure, Trump’s instincts are much closer to Elizabeth Warren’s than they are to his tight-fisted acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney.”

“Trump meets on Tuesday with Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi to discuss infrastructure. These meetings usually amount to nothing besides a media circus. But Democrats still take these meetings — in fact, Pelosi requested this one — because they know that, left to his own devices, Trump would happily spend a ton of federal money on infrastructure. (It’s his own party that won’t let him.)”

Jonathan Swan: Inside the Pelosi-Schumer Trump meeting prep.

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Trump's $2 Trillion Spending Dream (Original Post) applegrove Apr 2019 OP
well well. not sure what this means so i said well well. Kurt V. Apr 2019 #1
Trump has been doing the GOP agenda. He is incurious about policy. applegrove Apr 2019 #2
+1 thank you Kurt V. Apr 2019 #3
Infrastructure - his phony national emergency wall. keithbvadu2 Apr 2019 #4
Oh I did not think of that. I was thinking the GOP want to put infrastructure applegrove Apr 2019 #5

applegrove

(118,659 posts)
2. Trump has been doing the GOP agenda. He is incurious about policy.
Sun Apr 28, 2019, 08:06 PM
Apr 2019

Occasionally he tries to do something for his base rather than against them. Then the GOP try and stop him. I also read today that Trump wants to repeal healthcare again. So he basically has no idea what is going on in the lives of the people who trust him and vote for him.

applegrove

(118,659 posts)
5. Oh I did not think of that. I was thinking the GOP want to put infrastructure
Sun Apr 28, 2019, 10:04 PM
Apr 2019

spending off because we are at full employment and such spending would result in wages going up and they can't stand that. They would prefer infrastructure spending when automation has eaten into the full employment. But that makes sense too. I don't think the GOP has told Trump the bases wages are not allowed to go up for any reason.

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