"Mnuchin: âThereâs a big difference between talk and action.â"
With the right headline, you donât even need the story.
Trump is pretending to give a damn about health care again, so tax reform and infrastructure will have to wait.
âIt is fair to say it is probably delayed a bit because of the health care.â
Doesnât he mean Trumpâs utter, miserable failure in attempting to kill Obamacare?
âThe President was making a factual commentâŚ"
When did that ever happen??
How is it even possible to be this oblivious to reality and still live? Trumpâs a spent and discredited force already. Heâll get nothing through Congress.
Did Trump ever have political capital?
But he signs off on all the toxic horseshit like allowing ISPs to sell their clientsâ information.
All of which will be summarily reversed by next Democratic president.
âhighly aggressive to not realisticâ schedule for President Donald Trump to sign a tax bill before Congress breaks for recess in August.
Which August? 2020?
Nothing gets done without help from the Democrats.
GOP Voters: No worries, we never believed any word of what Trump said. We will vote for him again no matter what.
FOX: Exactly.
If they were going to go piecemeal they might have a chance. But getting something that all the republicans will agree on on one big package likely makes healthcare look easy.
Oh, and by the way, this is why you staff your agencies. So they can be working on one set of things while another set of things is being legislated on.
The GOPâs American Health Care Act did not fail to garner sufficient Republican support for a vote, it failed to garner sufficient support to pass on strictly GOP votes. Thatâs the difference between a democracy, or representative republic if you prefer, and a dictatorship.
This is pretty funny, especially if you live in Washington. Congress is NEVER around in August, and after Labor Day, every ounce of energy is spent on either the appropriations bill, or, because this Congress is exceptionally dysfunctional, the latest round of continuing resolutions. Then, after that, there is a brief window before Thanksgiving, and then Christmas and BABY THATâS IT BECAUSE ALL OF A SUDDEN ITâS ANOTHER ELECTION YEAR! It didnât used to be like that, but I canât think of too many major bills in recent years that made it out of Congress between August and December. Thatâs why those first 100 days are so important.
And donât forget that even during âproductiveâ periods members of Congress are still spending hours upon hours fundraising at events or in cubicles at party HQ.
Best-case scenario.
The Drumpf administration is so incompetent about how Government functions that it minimizes its damages to it.
There is just so much wrongness crammed into this brief little piece.
âIt started as [an] aggressive timeline,â Mnuchin said in an interview with the Financial Times published Monday, referring to the August deadline.
Ya think? Factor in that you also have to get a budget passed and the debt limit raised between now and then, around the lax work schedule Congress has an its not aggressiveâŚits âI want some of what he is smokingâ crazy.
âThe Trump administration and congressional leadership originally planned to repeal and replace Obamacare before approaching a tax bill, as the health care effort would fundamentally change the tax landscape.â
Freely admitting that they had no clue about what they were tackling with by going after healthcare. They thought it was just a big tax bill (and it kinda was from their proposal). That shouldnât give anybody confidence that they have a handle on just how big this sort of tax reform would be.
âOn March 24, the same day the GOPâs American Health Care Act failed to garner sufficient Republican support for a vote, Mnuchin told Axiosâ Mike Allen that tax reform was âmuch simplerâ than health care reform, and that Republicans would propose a tax bill in one comprehensive piece, rather than in incremental measures.â
Its not. As massive as healthcare reform is, tax reform touches even MORE interests and lives. And thinking that they can tackle it in one big comprehensive piece once again highlights that they really have no grasp on the size of the endeavor, let alone the time and difficulties that will emerge.
âMnuchin also told FT that Trumpâs recent comments that the U.S. dollar was too strong didnât mean the President supports devaluing American currency.â
Actually, to rest of the worldâŚthat is considered a very clear indication that a country is devaluing their currency. This of course goes to their complete lack of understanding of the language of the world. Similarly, Penceâs statement today about âending the era of strategic patienceâ falls into the same category. There officially is still a state of war between N. Korea and S. KoreaâŚjust in a verrrrry long cease fire. A statement like that would be considered by most to meanâŚthe cease fire is over and let hostilities begin anew.
They arenât even amateurs pretending at being professionalsâŚthey are much worse. They simply have no idea of what they are doing in terms of policy, scale or intent.
All the $trillions they would route to their patrons are still locked up in Medicaid.
Need to solve step 1 before advancing to step 2.
Mnuchin(the guy whose father Chris Christie put in jail for tax evasion)also told the Financial Times that even if the Border Adjustment(aka tariff)wasnât included as part of Tax Reform, he knew other ways to raise 1 Trillion dollars. I guess heâs suggesting either to foreclose few hundred thousand families and sell their housesâSteve has experience at thatâor arrange a crashout for his dad, who can mastermind a caper to get the money. Or maybe Steve just has a trillion he âforgotâ to report at Senate confirmation hearings.