Trump: Republicans were 'forced' to increase spending
Source: The Hill
BY JONATHAN EASLEY - 02/09/18 09:21 AM EST
President Trump on Friday expressed displeasure with the government funding bill just moments after he signed the bill into law ending a brief federal shutdown.
In a pair of tweets, Trump said Republicans were forced to increase spending because there are too many Democrats in Congress.
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
More than two-thirds of Republicans in the Senate voted for the spending package early Friday morning after Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) held up the vote.
Paul railed against it on the Senate floor into the early hours of Friday morning, saying Republicans did not run for election promising to bust through budget caps and raise the debt ceiling.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/373113-trump-republicans-were-forced-to-increase-spending
PJMcK
(22,047 posts)Hey, Trump! You really think the budget bill you just signed was too big and it's the Democrats fault?
Where did you learn simple arithmetic? Do you understand what "majority" means?
This budget-- like most of the shit in this administration-- is all on the Republicans.
Fool.
OnDoutside
(19,969 posts)from Democrats, "Trump doesn't want to help the poor and sick"
maxrandb
(15,349 posts)A majority of voters in just enough states who were motivated enough to get to the voting booth don't want to help the poor and the sick
This rhetoric will only cause the Retrumplicans to embrace this sat of shit even more.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)He's not playing the same game we are. Keep that in mind.
JDC
(10,130 posts)Don't know, don't care is their motto.
Nitram
(22,861 posts)Takes me back to Reagan, who cut taxers and raised the military budget. Publicans always put the nation more deeply in debt. Then, when a Democratic president comes along and tries to fix the economy and lower the debt, they are accused of trying to bankrupt the nation. I'm so tired of this cycle.
unblock
(52,309 posts)massive increase in spending for "defense" and his stupid wall.
sure, they would also cut back on medicare and social security, but they would have spent way, way more.
whatever they "save" by kicking grandma to the curb, they would give away in yet more tax breaks for the rich and then some.
bucolic_frolic
(43,258 posts)which would you prefer?
Trump is stamping out everything FDR achieved for working people, this is a game the Republican Party first articulated in the 1930s as a response to the New Deal. They prefer fascism over democracy. We are almost there.
pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)He ran out of Obama things to destroy so he is going back in history to find more things to destroy. Unfortunately, he's not going to stop the destruction until he is removed from office.
sinkingfeeling
(51,471 posts)Freethinker65
(10,036 posts)I mean a stronger more competent art if the deal master would have just vetoed it and gotten a way better deal.
But not Trump. He caved to the Democrats. Weak. Ineffective leader. He said he wanted a shutdown to show who's boss, then turns around and readily accepts defeat.
* Of course all the above is subjective. Hahaha
politicaljunkie41910
(3,335 posts)maxrandb
(15,349 posts)Just 43% of Retrumplicans and 7.1% of "3RD Party 'Both sides are the same' Progressives".
That's all he needs
bitterross
(4,066 posts)They think the only thing we should spend money on is a strong national defense. They don't actually support the Christian values that help other people. They don't care about roads and bridges until one falls out from under them.
His messaging works perfectly. This is why he was able to get into office. It doesn't matter if it is correct or the least bit sensible. It hits their lizard brains right where he needs it to.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Reading between the tweets:
"They're going to impeach, convict and sentence me and my entire family to prison in 2019!
Must elect more Republicans in 2018 Election!"
Weed Man
(304 posts)with no mail, no TV, no privileges, once a week shower, and a mandatory haircut for that rug of his.
Welcome to Florence, Colorado - where all hopes are abandoned.
Pisces
(5,602 posts)The U.S. Treasury expects to borrow $955 billion this fiscal year, according to documents released Wednesday. Its the highest amount of borrowing in six years, and a big jump from the $519 billion the federal government borrowed last year
this is the first time borrowing has jumped this much (as a share of GDP) in a non-recession time since Ronald Reagan was president
This is bigger than the stimulus that Obama managed to push through in the face of the worst recession since the 1930s but this time during peak employment, and in the eighth year of a recovery, on top of record peacetime debt. Just to add to this, the new spending bill under negotiation would add another cool half a trillion to the debt. To call this reckless would be an understatement, and the gravity of this fiscal vandalism is now beginning to filter through the markets.
Every Democrat should be highlighting how much more than Obama, Trump is borrowing. This will drive Trump insane.
SWBTATTReg
(22,156 posts)You're a republican too. Or, are you confessing that you are not actually a republican, and simply hijacked the republican party for your own means?
By now I would think tRUMP would realize that it takes both parties working together to come to effective compromises in that everyone wins something. They don't win everything they wanted, but at least everyone gets a piece of pie.
thesquanderer
(11,990 posts)He has said numerous times that he is in favor of addressing DACA. More Trump inconsistency to add to the list.
BumRushDaShow
(129,382 posts)So emergency aid to help recover from catastrophic events (including some to do repairs that would mitigate future disasters) that happened over 6 months ago that they refused to enact, is considered "waste", but funding for a fucking "military parade" is just fine.
chelsea0011
(10,115 posts)He signed an enormous give away at the expense of our children and in business he just files bankruptcy. As long as there is someone to screw with not paying, he is all in.
hibbing
(10,109 posts)turbinetree
(24,713 posts)they/ we are paying for two more submarines that will cost 36 billion, we will be spending over 235 million for each F35's, , we are still spending and still climbing over 5.6 trillion in Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc....and we are spending just in Syria over 500 million so far in Syria, and then you say these words of sexual predator words of insanity if someone where to look at it twice:
Without more Republicans in Congress, we were forced to increase spending on things we do not like or want in order to finally, after many years of depletion, take care of our Military. Sadly, we needed some Dem votes for passage. Must elect more Republicans in 2018 Election!"
"Without more republicans in Congress" "we were forced to increase spending" ------------no one forced you to do anything dickhead"
Go away..................go back into your hole of horse shit, we just spent over 35 million so that you can go fucking golf at your "place of business"--------------so FUCK YOU
Then come March 23, 2018 we get to go through the shit again, you really are a sociopath and so is your demented fascist supporting traitorous party
Your a idiot......................
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough
Weed Man
(304 posts)All he has to do is rescind that law.
There, 1.5t saved and forces the 1% to pay their fucking share at 95% tax rate.
SCantiGOP
(13,873 posts)as you know, the Democrats control both houses of Congress. Thanks, Obama and President Hillary.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,170 posts)From the party of personal responsibility.