Hensarling, Waters bill stalls amid dispute with Trump administration
Source: Politico
One of the House's major bipartisan achievements this year — a sweeping financial deregulation package negotiated by Democrat Maxine Waters and Republican Jeb Hensarling — may be doomed.
As Congress prepares to leave town in the coming days, Democrats are opposing efforts to attach the legislation to a year-end government funding bill. GOP Senate leadership hasn't scheduled a stand-alone vote, which some expect would fail.
The stalemate comes as disagreements have cropped up among lawmakers and the Trump administration over a number of provisions in the bill, which the House passed on a 406-4 vote in July. Hensarling is willing to negotiate, but that may not be enough.
"We are still working to try to see if it can be brought forward in one of the vehicles that moves, but that’s not resolved yet," Senate Banking Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) said in an interview. "The longer this takes, the less time there would be for an independent vote on it."
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Here, even when we finally have a truely bipartisan worked on and supported bill, Trump can't even sign it.
There was a time, right after the election, when I thought maybe, just maybe, Trump might be smart and at least pretend to share some policy ideas with Democrats and say...work with them to fix mistakes in the ACA. Or gun control. Or medicare for all, as he once publicly said he supports a more single payer universal style system.
But no, he proved more of a nut job who went the easy and ego fawning approach of going double down on his pandering to the lowest common denominator of his base, and demonizing Democrats instead of working with them.
His "Art of the Deal" is explained by someone I forget who, on Bill Maher's show, that applies in this situation. He has a terrible record for deal making because of a few things, one of which is that when it gets to the point where all sides are just about to sign, where the other side is finally okay with the terms of the deal, then it MUST mean that he could have gotten MORE out from the other side. That he must be being played for a sucker somehow if they are willing to sign. So he will quash deals based on that belief. Or re-open the negotiation, and maybe lose it that way.
