Who says impeachment doesn’t pay? Trump to sign budget bills passed by Democrats
Daniel Horowitz · December 20, 2019
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In what is perhaps the most vivid display of Washington politics as a real-life WWE spectacle, both parties got together to agree on all of the key spending and legislative priorities for an entire year right after supposedly going to war with each other over impeachment. Trump and Senate Republicans rewarded House Democrats for impeachment by passing their budget deal. Trump is expected to sign these budget bills before the end of the day, along with the massive “defense†bill that contains everything but real defense.
The vote tallies say it all. The main omnibus bill that massively increased spending for non-defense items and contained a Christmas tree of Democrat-corporatist priorities leftists bragged about passed the House on Tuesday with all but seven of roughly 230 Democrats supporting it. At the same time, 112 Republicans, roughly 59 percent of the GOP conference, voted against it. Undoubtedly, even more would have opposed it had they not been told that the White House supported it.
Following the Democrat impeachment vote on Wednesday, the Senate passed this bill on Thursday by a margin of 71-23. Just two Democrats opposed it! On the other side, 21 Republicans voted no. One of the no votes, Kirsten Gillibrand, still bragged about all the pork the bill delivered. She likely had some quixotic reason for opposing the bill but did not seem too offended by it. None of the Democrat senators running for president were present for the vote, because of the debate in Iowa.
What about the separate DHS-DOD minibus bill? Didn’t that contain some wall funding? Didn’t Trump really win out over the Democrats on that? Yes, it’s true that 75 House Democrats did vote no, but two-thirds of the most radical House Democrat caucus in American history still voted for it. And it’s not like the other 75 members, mainly from the Hispanic and progressive caucuses, screamed bloody murder. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, the chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, did not even issue a press release on the vote.
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