Sounds great. Please get on the TV and tell everyone.
Yes, and heāll take credit for it as a big win for himself. Like, see how great Congress works when Iām in charge?
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Was looking for a post that wasnāt so fucking thankful for the crumbs. Thank you!
Democrats appeared to be happy with the compromise funding measure, which will not include money to build a border wall.
Donald? You suck at your job.
Thank God.
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Itās not pointless. Do you realize that Barack HUSSEIN Obama gutted our military and left it so useless that it would likely lose a war to Lichtenstein? Thanks to Obama, we only outspend the next seven countries combined. It used to be the next twenty!
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Good grief. Enough already with the whining. Weāre at a point where we have to defend the good of what weāve already got. Haring off on a tangent of things that arenāt gonna happen until maybe after 2020 is counter productive.
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But 4 of those 7 are our allies.
And the Dems walk away with quite a few victories. Planned Parenthood is also still funded and most of Trumpās budget cuts arenāt there
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The best win for the Dās so far this Presidency (canāt count saving OāCare as a win since the Rās couldnāt even get a bill to the floor). And now, put the focus back on the stalled investigations on Trump/Russia/elections/money laundering.
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It is interesting to think that the republicans were so fearful of being identified with another shutdown that they were willing to deal. Now that the deal is done it is even possible that the Senate would override a Trump veto.
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āCongress Reaches Deal To Fund Federal Government Through September.ā
Now isnāt that thoughtful of them!
Imagine that! The āGovernmentā for which we all work has found a way to keep us working for it thru the entire summer when the Congresscritters have their biggest block of taxpayer-funded paid āVacation.ā
We wouldnāt want our Congresscritters to go without our money, now would they?
Slimy bunch of No-goodniks!
Iām glad to see that the ābackroom dealā stretches beyond āLabor Day.ā
Not that this sorry mess of people bothers with genuine work, much.
(And from the photo, I see that Upchuck must have found his dentures again. Too bad the āpartyā heās in charge of has no bite at all.)
Reminder for the gloom-and-doom contingent: The White House and Congressional Republicans caved on this deal. The Democrats got almost everything they wanted.
From The Atlantic:
"In the $1.1 trillion spending bill Congress unveiled early Monday morning, Trump secured up to $15 billion in additional defense spending for the remaining seven months of the fiscal year, along with a modest $1.5 billion boost for border security. But in most other respects, the first bipartisan agreement of the Trump administration is remarkably similar to what lawmakers might have agreed to under the divided government led by former President Barack Obama.
Republican and Democratic lawmakers refused to allocate money for Trumpās prized border wall or a ādeportation forceā of new border agents, nor did they withhold funds from so-called āsanctuary cities.ā They ignored his proposed $18 billion cut to domestic agencies and the State Departmentāeven the Environmental Protection Agency got 99 percent of its budget funded. Lawmakers approved a bigger increaseā$2 billionā to fund medical research at the National Institutes of Health and for former Vice President Joseph Bidenās cancer āmoonshotā than for Trumpās priority of enhanced border security. And despite unified GOP control of the White House and Congress, federal taxpayer money can still flow to Planned Parenthood.
With good reason, Democrats were quicker to champion the agreement than Republicans or the Trump administration. āEarly on in this debate, Democrats clearly laid out our principles,āsaid Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer. āAt the end of the day, this is an agreement that reflects those principles.ā
Trump will have another chance to make his mark on federal spending in just a few months, when Congress must debate full-year funding for 2018. But in the first months of the new administration, Republicans on Capitol Hill were in no mood to chance a government shutdown by fighting for the presidentās priorities, and Democrats took advantage. In exchange for giving the Pentagon about half of the $30 billion spike that Trump requested, Democrats won increased funding for several programs that the White House wanted to cut, including Pell Grants, clean energy initiatives, transportation infrastructure, and nearly $300 million in Medicaid money for Puerto Rico. Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia and other coal-country lawmakers also won a big victory with the inclusion of $1.3 billion in long-term health-care funding for coal miners and their widows.
Republican reactions were muted, reflecting the considerably more modest wins they secured in the bill. Speaker Paul Ryan noted that Democrats had relented on their demand from throughout the Obama years that any increase in defense spending be paired by an equivalent rise in non-defense money. And he lauded funding to combat opioid addiction and support charter schools, the District of Columbiaās school voucher programs, and disaster relief. But the lack of any significant cuts in the bill was undoubtedly a defeat for spending hawks both in Congress and in the Trump administration, particularly budget chief Mick Mulvaney and Tom Price, the secretary of health and human services. Priceās department will actually get more money than even the Obama administration requested from Congress last year, thanks in large part to the bipartisan backing for increased medical-research funding.
The outcome had been expected after Trump relented last week on his demand for an immediate downpayment on the wall and on his threat to withhold subsidy payments to insurers under the Affordable Care Act. Democratic leaders had said the more Trump interfered in the congressional negotiations, the more likely they would lead to a shutdown. By the weekend, the White House had left them more or less aloneā¦"
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Soā¦no funding for the wall, no dismantling of Dodd-Frank, and Planned Parenthood stays funded?
SO MUCH WINNING THERE, *45!!
I think Speaker Ryan and the rest of the GOP are discovering itās a lot harder to govern than it is to sit back and bitch all the time. The dog caught the car and they really donāt like the tasteā¦and Iām cackling into my popcorn.
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Hopefully there arenāt any little bomblets in the details, and I absolutely do not trust the Trump administration to abide by these approbation and funding measures even though that are being passĆ© dingo law (assuming the orange turd signs it)
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Well, he admitted this weekend he doesnāt read the stuff they put in front of himā¦so Iām not expecting him personally to object.
Might be some sour pills to swallow for the rest of the frauds and crooks though.
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Ohā¦that oneās gonna leave a mark too. 
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Oh come on! Donāt you know by now how the system works??? Are you one of the Purity Ponies who couldnāt bring yourself to vote for Hillary because of her āgradualismā? Our government canāt do things quickly unless it is completely taken over by an authoritarian bunch of goons. Drumpf is trying real hard to bring that about. He thinks that the President can have that kind of power. This is an incredible win for our side. Just look at all the horrible social cuts Mulvaney and Drumpf proposed. What did they get? Nothing. And by time fall rolls around, the Repugs in swing areas are going to be mighty shy of going along with Drumpās agenda because the 2018 election season will have started.
BTW, Bernie is introducing a Single Payer/Medicare for All Bill into the Senate. All of our social program expansion plans/ideas are still there. This just was not the time for them to be brought out. As our military historians know, you donāt fight wars on multiple fronts. You focus and do the next right thing.
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Theyāre our allies today. Given the unhinged mental status of the Current Occupant of the White House, that could change in the blink of an eye.
We must remain vigilant, and overarmed to the point of absurdity, or all freedom is lost!
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GOP framingā¦
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So you would rather the Government shut down so you ādonāt have to work for the Governmentāā¦?
Your rant makes little if any sense at all.
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