Does the Budget Deal Bother You?
Feb 9, 2018
RUSH: The budget deal. It’s a big deal. It’s a two-year budget deal. We talked about this yesterday. And remember, I had an idea. You know, there’s a lot of people wondering about (laughing), “What is going on?†All of this spending, combined with the tax cuts, deficits as far as the eye can see — and it doesn’t seem like it’s very Republican. It doesn’t seem like it’s very conservative. And they indeed they shut down the government for a couple hours and they got it reopen last night when the deal was agreed to.
Trump signed it early this morning. So essentially it’s a two-year budget deal. The main thing that I think — and I admit this is cynical. But I think it’s relevant. I think a lot of Republicans voted for this thing just to ensure they will not be accused of shutting down (laughing) the government for two years now. Do not doubt me on this. Do not. Being accused of shutting down the government is something they think they’re gonna be guilty of whether they have anything to do with it or not every time it’s charged, and this is how they generally do it.
They kick things down the road to avoid dealing with them, and this kicks the government shutdown two years down the road. To heck with whatever else happens here. There’s massive amounts of defense spending, but discretional spending is skyrocketing. It’s going through the roof. There’s not even any pretense here at balancing a budget. There’s not even any pretense here of (chuckling) making the government smaller. There not even a pretense. The conservative caucus, the Freedom Caucus in the House, is beside itself.
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