Trump, Republicans Thinking About Cutting Spending From Omnibus Bill
Gee, you mean it wasn’t a good idea to push through this awful bill!? WHO KNEW!
Remember that awful omnibus bill the government passed last month? The backlash was swift and strong.
Apparently, lawmakers listened because reports suggest Trump and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) have started to look at ways to slash spending from the $1.3 trillion bill.
From Politico:
White House officials are working closely with House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on the rescission package, said the sources. It’s not clear which programs could be targeted or when the House would vote, although the White House had targeted dozens of programs in Trump’s 2019 budget proposal. The White House also proposed nearly $15 billion in budget cuts as part of last year’s hurricane relief package, which were never acted upon.
Under the 1974 Budget Act, a rescission resolution could pass the Senate on a simple majority vote. The political split in the Senate is 50-49 until Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith is sworn in to replace former Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.). But some Senate Republicans could balk at such cuts after they recently supported the omnibus spending bill.
The White House is also weighing whether to send a proposal for a line-item veto to Congress, which has been declared unconstitutional in the past. Trump has demanded line-item veto power to cut out spending programs preferred by Democrats.
I’m not shocked that Trump is looking into this. He threatened to veto the bill, but went ahead and signed it into law due to the military spending provisions. Trump held a press conference when he signed it and told Congress he “will never sign another bill like this again.”
The Washington Post reported that House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-NC) “praised McCarthy for working with the White House on a plan to pare it back.” Meadows offered his support and is happy that McCarthy listened to his constituents.
However, even though Republicans have the majority, Congress may not approve Trump’s request. More than likely Democrats will oppose this action since it was their approval of the omnibus bill that made it pass.
From Politico:
Democrats slammed GOP leaders and the White House for floating the rescission package right after pushing through a budget deal, saying Republicans were simply reacting to negative news coverage by conservative outlets.
“The omnibus was a responsible agreement enacted into law with bipartisan votes and the president’s signature,” said Matthew Dennis, spokesman for House Appropriations Committee Democrats. “Calling for a do-over because you didn’t like the press coverage after the fact is the height of absurdity.”
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” … saying Republicans were simply reacting to negative news coverage by conservative outlets. ”
When they do that, Democrats call it “listening to the voices of their constituents.”
Trump likely had this in mind when he signed the bill.
The scum of the GOPe likely didn’t.
LOL, looks like Trump found a way to do a line item veto…..ha
Except for the “line-item” and “veto” parts.
LOL
Wow, that was a dumb comment. Even from you.
Miss the entire point of his post, did you?
LOL!
Trump is famous for studying and finding more than one way to succeed on a problem.
probably cut it by several billion by getting rid of Schummers Sh**hole
… said Matthew Dennis, spokesman for House Appropriations Committee Democrats. “Calling for a do-over because you didn’t like the press coverage after the fact is the height of absurdity.”
The chances of this tactic having such a frivolous motivation are approximately zero.
They will Eliminate the Military spending, chicly gets all
Of his…
Republicans aren’t going to roll back anything. This is just the April edition of their rope-a-dope bullshit designed to momentarily distract their Ritalin-sucking base.
Yes, the “repeal obamacare” GOPe rats are as much our enemy as the left.
Few leaders in Washington to trust. Among them: Trump, Cruz, Rand Paul, Louis Gomert. Anyone care to add to the list?
I have a stupid question.
Right now the budget process favors increased spending, ie. You vote for my pork and I’ll vote for your pork. There’s no motivation to reduce spending, you’ll just be the guy caring principals back to your constituents instead of bacon.
Why not flip the system so they work against each other – if the budget grows too large cut ALL spending by a significant amount, 15-20%. Or whatever it takes to balance out.
Now, instead of Congress of Critters being partners in crime supporting each others scam, they’ll be competing against each other for a finite pool of money. His super collider is taking money away from my slush fund.
I’m sure this isn’t an original idea and someone else has already considered it so… question: what’s wrong with it why won’t it work?
Force the Congress Critters to do pure, Zero-Based Budgeting every year!
That method means instead of automatically getting a 5 or 10 percent increase in their pork budget automatically every year, the Congress Critters have to do “Real Work” and justify every penny in the budget they are requesting
So their pork budgets could be reduced, or totally cut off to zero.
And yeah sorry but I gave up the ghost on fiscal responsibility a long time ago. Around the same time I realized I just wasn’t going to get that Alabama girl who made everything brighter.
I probably should have recognized it as an early tell that the GOP Establishment wasn’t good for anything but Failure Theater.
Dems: “Calling for a do-over because you didn’t like the press coverage after the fact is the height of absurdity.”
Fen: wait what? We can do the Eye of Agamotto Time Loop thing and reverse this monstrosity? Sweet! …er uh I mean.. how absurd.