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Trumps $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 months St. Patricks Day lunch in the Capitol, President Trump told Richard Neal, the powerful Democratic chairman of the Houses 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, Trumps instincts are much closer to Elizabeth Warrens 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. (Its his own party that wont let him.)
Jonathan Swan: Inside the Pelosi-Schumer Trump meeting prep.
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Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)applegrove
(118,659 posts)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.
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,808 posts)Infrastructure - his phony national emergency wall.
applegrove
(118,659 posts)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.