Remember Trump’s plan to cut $60 billion in spending? Mitch McConnell just killed it

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Remember Trump’s plan to cut $60 billion in spending? Mitch McConnell just killed it
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Conservative Review, Apr 18, 2018, Chris Pandolfo

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“He agreed to it. He was involved in the negotiation and signed the bill,” McConnell said. “We had a deal with the Democrats.”

Here’s what’s wrong with this — aside from the fact that McConnell is whiffing on a chance to cut as much as $60 billion in spending. The argument leadership made to conservatives about the omnibus spending bill and why Republicans had to vote for it dealt with the 60-vote threshold. Without 60 votes in the Senate, conservatives are constantly told, McConnell’s Republicans just can’t override a Democrat filibuster. Leadership argued the military badly needed these spending increases and that we couldn’t risk the Democrats shutting down the government and holding the military hostage by insisting on cuts to non-defense spending. So that’s why Republicans were “forced” to swallow a $1.3 trillion increase in spending.

Well, this argument doesn’t apply to a rescissions package. The money for the military has already been appropriated, so a $60 billion spending cut to non-defense spending doesn’t affect the troops, obviously. Further, these spending cuts would be brought up using a “privileged resolution” in the Senate, permitting Republicans to pass the cuts with a simple majority, the 51 votes they do have. That’s why President Trump’s White House and House Republicans were ready to move forward with this plan.

So with the big obstacles to cutting government spending out of the way, what’s the problem?


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There is ZERO reason to vote for Republicans.

If you want Big Government Liberal-Statism with limitless deficit spending on bullshit Democrat agenda programs to the tune of TRILLIONS, might as well vote for the Democrats and get the same damn thing you would get by voting for Republicans.

The only difference - and I mean ONLY DIFFERENCE between the two sides of the same party Oligarchy, is that the Republicans think they can better manage Statism than the Democrats.

Other than that, if you like secret bills for trillions in spending crafted in secret and Congress voting on it before anyone even reads the bill, you can vote for the GOP or the Democrat and get the same exact results.

It's time to dump the corrupt bullshit and do something different.