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The Daily 202: Eight ways Trump got rolled in his first budget negotiation
« on: May 01, 2017, 05:38:13 pm »

The Daily 202: Eight ways Trump got rolled in his first budget negotiation
By James Hohmann May 1 at 9:39 AM

With Breanne Deppisch

THE BIG IDEA: Perhaps the best negotiators are not the people who tell everyone that they are the best negotiators.

A spending agreement was reached last night that will keep the government funded through the end of September. This will be the first significant bipartisan measure passed by Congress since Donald Trump took office.

-- The White House agreed to punt on a lot of the president’s top priorities until this fall to avert a shutdown on Friday and to clear the deck so that the House can pass a health-care bill. “This is going to be a great week,” Gary Cohn, Trump’s chief economic adviser, said on CBS this morning. “We're going to get health care down to the floor of the House. We're convinced we've got the votes, and we're going to keep moving on with our agenda.”

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Re: The Daily 202: Eight ways Trump got rolled in his first budget negotiation
« Reply #1 on: May 01, 2017, 05:51:03 pm »
Let's lay them out, and people can click for details...

  • There are explicit restrictions to block the border wall.
  • Non-defense domestic spending will go up, despite the Trump team’s insistence he wouldn’t let that happen.
  • Barack Obama’s cancer moonshot is generously funded.
  • 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.
  • He didn’t defund Planned Parenthood.
  • The president got less than half as much for the military as he said was necessary.
  • Democrats say they forced Republicans to withdraw more than 160 riders.
  • To keep negotiations moving, the White House already agreed last week to continue paying Obamacare subsidies.


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Re: The Daily 202: Eight ways Trump got rolled in his first budget negotiation
« Reply #2 on: May 02, 2017, 04:47:54 am »
WINNING!

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