Eight ways Trump got rolled in his first budget negotiation

[mcar]

Thankfully, Drumpf and Congressional Rs are completely incompetent.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2017/05/01/daily-202-eight-ways-trump-got-rolled-in-his-first-budget-negotiation/590687f2e9b69b3a72331f09/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_daily202-10a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.6825853b4ad7

...There are explicit restrictions to block the border wall. We knew last week there would be no money to start construction on a project that the president says is more important to his base than anything else. But the final agreement goes further, putting strict limitations on how Trump can use new money for border security (e.g. to invest in new technology and repair existing fencing). Administration officials have insisted they already have the statutory authority to start building the wall under a 2006 law. This prevents such an end run....

Non-defense domestic spending will go up, despite the Trump team’s insistence he wouldn’t let that happen. The president called for $18 billion in cuts. Instead, he’s going to sign a budget with lots of sweeteners that grow the size of government. Mitch McConnell made sure $4.6 billion got put aside to permanently extend health benefits to 22,000 retired Appalachian coal miners and their families. Nancy Pelosi made sure $295 million was included to shore up Medicaid in Puerto Rico. Chuck Schumer got $61 million to reimburse local law enforcement agencies for the cost of protecting Trump when he travels to his residences in Florida and New York. There is also another $2 billion in disaster relief money for states, which bought a couple votes. (Kelsey Snell, our lead budget reporter, has more examples.)

3. Barack Obama’s cancer moonshot is generously funded. The administration asked to slash spending at the National Institutes of Health by $1.2 billion for the rest of this fiscal year. Instead, the NIH will get a $2 billion boost — on top of the huge increase it got last year. Republican appropriators who care about biomedical research, including Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) and Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), delivered...

Trump fought to cut the Environmental Protection Agency by a third. The final deal trims its budget by just 1 percent, with no staff cuts. As part of a compromise, the EPA gets $80 million less than last year, but the budget is $8 billion.

[haele]

1. Congress always talks about cutting budgets, but Pork keeps them in office.

Even Multi-millionaires are not going to risk losing their jobs, influence, and profitable perks for a "moral stance" on budget spending items their voting constituents rely on to keep food on the table.
The wealthy might get their tax cuts for a couple years, but the government still runs on revenue, and unless the Nation naturally falls into little insecure fiefdoms, the wealthy soon learns they do have to pay their taxes - at a higher rate than the average person, or the host that they are profiting off dies off along with the infrastructure that profit gets delivered with - and their money all goes away.
Taxes are the price for wealth. Always. And the wealthy always do very well when they respect and pay their taxes. Trouble only happens when they try to cheat the system.
Unless, of course, they plan on destroying the world just to avoid their responsibilities.

Back to Reality. Oops here comes Gravity...

Haele

[mcar]

2. Well said

I wonder how long it will take their constituents to realize they were had?

[LOL Lib]

3. "Presidentin' ain't easy..."

By Lil' Donnie Turniphead