Lindsey Graham Says Trump's First Budget Is 'Dead On Arrival'

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo



By ESME CRIBB Published FEBRUARY 28, 2017, 1:20 PM EDT

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said Tuesday that President Donald Trump's budget outline is "dead on arrival" and that proposed cuts to State Department funding "would be a disaster."

"It's dead on arrival. It's not going to happen. It would be a disaster," Graham said.

He said that if Trump limits the State Department's ability to exercise "soft power" he is "never going to win the war."

"What's most disturbing about the cut in the State Department's budget, it shows a lack of understanding," Graham said.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/lindsey-graham-trump-budget-dead-on-arrival

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[lagomorph777]

1. Agent Orange wants to cut the State Dept so he can curtail the CIA,

who have been a little too nosey about the Trumputin situation.

[cos dem]

3. CIA is a separate budget item.

Maybe idiot thinks they're the same.

[lagomorph777]

4. Yeah, but he's probably planning to cut the Black Budget too,

because who cares about Black people?

[BeyondGeography]

2. President Bannon will not be amused

K&R

[yallerdawg]

5. Republicans pissed just before his first ever "State of the Union"?

This is going to be something to watch tonight!

[louis-t]

6. He will lose. his. shit.

We aren't even two months in and this asshole is ruining the country. Sick of it.

[global1]

7. Graham Says He Is " Never Going To Win The War"......

What war is Graham talking about?

[NewJeffCT]

10. The GWOT of course

Global War on Terror

[Honeycombe8]

12. He's referring to Trump's reference to increased defense budget to "win the war." nt

[lark]

8. It shows a lack of understanding - DUH!!!

Yeah, like anyone who is stupid enough to admit that Healthcare is complicated and that no one realized that would have the understanding of how diplomacy works. It's not loud, noisy, obnoxious or in your face so of course he totally discounts it's effect. He's too stupid to understand subtlety or diplomacy and is so freaking out of his league, getting used and rode hard daily by Pootie and thinking this is a good thing, WOW.

[yellowcanine]

9. Your turn John McCain. Amusing to see Graham and McCain competing for the not Trump mantle.

[jmowreader]

11. It's good to see they're carrying on tradition

It pains me to say it (and you to read it) but Lindsey Graham is right, of course: Trump's plan to rob Peter to pay Paul is untenable. Trump wants to be the president who started and won a Great War. If he has to get rid of all the parts of our government that are there to prevent wars great or small, and then he carries on insulting the world, he may get his wish.

He also may get impeached before the bullets start flying, but he will probably get one of those little visits from a few Republican senators, like the one Nixon got.

[SHRED]

13. Good gridlock

Keep this asshole from doing too much damage.

[groundloop]

16. Yes, sadly, gridlock is the best we can hope for

Hopefully we'll soon see all out war amongst the repukes. Best chance we have of the country not being ruined by the time they're done with it.

[ailsagirl]

14. NO surprise-- still good to hear it's DOA

[zentrum]

15. No, Lindsey, it does not show

....a "lack of understanding".

It is deliberate. It is a war budget. It is a Bannon Apocalypse budget.

Bannon wants WW3 because he is on a madman's mission to have a crazy, revolutionary violent cleansing of Islam in order to re-establish the Cecil B. DeMille style Christian Jesus.

[gopiscrap]

17. you know in some ways

trump may not be able to get anything done because he is such an idiot

[hibbing]

18. Majority of both parties will vote for the defense spending

JMHO, they spread that stuff out all over into every congressional district.


Peace

[unblock]

19. wow, has a president's first budget ever been declared "doa" by his own party before?

usually even the opposition party at least gives lip service to the president's budget proposal

[yurbud]

20. what war?