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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLaurence Tribe: Trump got rolled
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The $1.3 Tr spending bill Trump signed into law today included strong new Russia sanctions and a ban on nearly all of Trumps dumb border wall. Nobody seems to know how that stuff got into the 2,300 pg bill or whether our moronic POTUS had a clue that it was in what he signed.
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)And a terrifically good joke, even though that wasn't the point.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,300 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)WheelWalker
(8,956 posts)herding cats
(19,567 posts)He needs to pick his puppets better. Weak. Sad. Pitiful.
mnmoderatedem
(3,728 posts)babylonsister
(171,090 posts)enlightened me. There's an angel out there who inserted the part about sanctions and no one knows who it is.
Now it's signed because...dt.
AllyCat
(16,222 posts)Or perhaps bigger than we think. Same with he border wall? Was that an anonymous insertion? That last sentence doesnt sound right.
Corvo Bianco
(1,148 posts)unblock
(52,317 posts)serves him right.
Takket
(21,625 posts)PufPuf23
(8,836 posts)Grammy23
(5,813 posts)what was in the bill because no one had read it. It was new and there wasnt time to read it. So yea, he probably didnt have a clue. Boy, will he be steamed when he finds out!
ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)Not the WH staff, and probably not FOX News. So we are safe. Take the boy out on the golf course tomorrow and he'll forget he even signed a bill.
What I want to know is, what kind of media splash is he going to produce on Monday to cover up the 60 Minutes interview fallout?
Wounded Bear
(58,706 posts)dchill
(38,532 posts)He's the only one that matters!
struggle4progress
(118,338 posts)and babbling towards adoring crowds
Whether he gets much money for his wall may not matter very much to him, as long as he can blather about it, without being contradicted
Being the lazy fuckwit he is, there;s not much reason to hope he'll take care that the laws be faithfully executed, for Russia sanctions or anything else: this is dangerous and IMO impeachable, but perhaps not enough people will pay attention
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)struggle4progress
(118,338 posts)sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)they happen.
VOX
(22,976 posts)I agree, he's a know-nothing regarding most things. Flies by the seat of his pants most of the time.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Pre-emptive - for when Trump tries to say that he didn't know what was in the bill. Ryan has done a CYA.
But of course, it would've taken hours, if not days, to explain everything that is in the bill. Trump has the attention span of a 5 year old child. So no doubt there are things in the bill that Trump doesn't know about, that most Repubs don't know about.
Cha
(297,655 posts)gnat.
ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)Ryan holding posterboards with cartoonish illustrations of tanks and airplanes, deportees being thrown over the border, Putin riding a Tennessee Walker gifted from us, and a gold toilet for Air Force One.
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Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Hekate
(90,793 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)apkhgp
(1,068 posts)All three sections of government are Right Wing controlled. Yet he gets pushed into signing a bill that limits his border wall funds. He got a lot of power from that election victory.
SCantiGOP
(13,873 posts)He sure looks like a stable genius.
pansypoo53219
(20,995 posts)RainCaster
(10,914 posts)Stop your whinging and give me the facts please.
Qutzupalotl
(14,327 posts)Link to tweet
From Fox:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/22/funding-for-border-wall-in-spending-bill-divides-conservatives-and-establishment-republicans.html
Trump had requested $1.6 billion in funding for the border wall, with additional money for border technology, and appeared to have secured that in the spending bill. But a closer look indicates that it differs from what Trump requested.
The $1.6 billion funding offers:
Some $251 million for 14 miles of secondary fencing along the southwest border in the San Diego Sector.
It also funds $445 million for 25 miles of primary pedestrian levee fencing along the southwest border in the Rio Grande Valley Sector, as well as an additional $196 million for fencing along the same border. White House budget director Mick Mulvaney indicated this would be an additional eight miles, less than the 32 miles the White House requested.
It also gives $445 million for the replacement of existing primary pedestrian fencing along the southwest border.
Also see this thread:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210404429
RussBLib
(9,035 posts)anonymously?
not fooled
(5,801 posts)let alone 2,000.
No or minimal $$$$$ squandered on the Cambridge Analytica Wall*, that's a good thing.
*named in their honor because the idea was tested by them before donnie even heard of such a thing.
ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)Won't do his homework--his due diligence. Won't hire anyone but sycophants to help him out--certainly doesn't hire on the basis of qualifications.
He is too stupid to know how stupid and uneducated he is. Thinks "seat of the pants" is good enough. Thinks he can lie his way out of anything. Thinks all that matters are the optics.
I don't think it is possible to un-sign a bill, is it?
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Seem to have a big problem with reading comprehension and has packed the West Wing with bootlicking idiots. So yes, I likely don't even know what is even in the title of the bill.
CousinIT
(9,257 posts)In the omnibus bill, the Social Security Administration (SSA) gets an increase of $480 million over the previous fiscal year, including $100 million for reducing the backlog in Social Security Disability Insurance hearings which some 10,000 Americans died waiting for in 2017. The funding bump which the National Committee has long advocated should also alleviate some of the excessively long wait times for customer service on SSAs toll-free phone line and in-person at SSA field offices.
On March 7th, National Committee president Max Richtman testified before the House Social Security subcommittee, urging members to adequately fund SSA. The agency had been subject to an 11% budget reduction since 2010, causing severe cutbacks in customer service at a time when 10,000 Baby Boomers turn 65 every day.
The Omnibus bill also includes $59 million more for Older Americans Act Senior Nutrition programs and an increase of $250 million for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), while the State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) receives a modest increase in funding. The spending plan also gives a $414 million boost to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for Alzheimers and dementia research.
nolabear
(41,991 posts)MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Some things the Idiot is clueless about.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Presumably this bill is not all that great.