Senate rejects Trump plan to claw back spending

[Right_in_Virginia]

Senate rejects Trump plan to claw back spending
The Hill, Jun 20, 2018, Jordain Carney -

The Senate on Wednesday narrowly rejected President Trump's plan to claw back roughly $15 billion in spending approved by Congress earlier this year.

In a 48-50 vote, senators failed to discharge the measure from committee. A majority vote was needed.

GOP Sens. Richard Burr (N.C.) and Susan Collins (Maine) joined 48 members of the Democratic caucus in voting against bringing up the bill.

"My belief ... is that it's the job of Congress to comb through these accounts and that's what we do on the appropriations committee," Collins said.

A Burr aide said the North Carolina senator voted "no" on moving forward with the package because he couldn't get a promise that his amendment addressing cuts to the Land and Water Conservation Fund would receive a vote.

The vote is a blow to conservatives and the White House, who pushed the package in response to backlash from the GOP base over a mammoth rescissions package passed in March.

White House Budget Chief Mick Mulvaney said the measure’s failure was “disappointing.”


More:  http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/393284-senate-rejects-trump-plan-to-clawback-spending

[dfwgator]

Spineless weasels all of them.

[Maj. Bill Martin]

Spineless weasels all of them.

Well...at least the 2 Republicans who voted against it.  Not fair to blame the rest.

[dfwgator]

Well...at least the 2 Republicans who voted against it.  Not fair to blame the rest.

They knew which ones would vote against to defeat, and the others got to vote for it to cover their butts.

[aligncare]

They knew which ones would vote against to defeat, and the others got to vote for it to cover their butts.

I wonder if the two are from states that, purely by coincidence of course, are re-election safe?

Nah. I’m sure they voted on principles.

[Formerly Once-Ler]

Well...at least the 2 Republicans who voted against it.  Not fair to blame the rest.

When I was a republican I would have argued that 48 GOP Senators voted to cut spending.  Now I recognize that it's a ploy where the republicans point at the rats and the rats point at the GOP and nothing gets fixed.

[Fantom]

When I was a republican I would have argued that 48 GOP Senators voted to cut spending.  Now I recognize that it's a ploy where the republicans point at the rats and the rats point at the GOP and nothing gets fixed.

The ashole actually made some sense... for once.