Breaking: Donald Threatening to Veto New Spending Bill over (lack of) DACA Deal
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https://twitter.com/i/moments/977201282602749953
Repeat after me.
MASTER. DEAL-MAKER.
Oh no, it doesn't fund ol Donny's border wall?
Wasn't this idiot the one that ended the DACA program in the first place?
It kinda sounds like he's trying to look good by solving a problem he created.
Lol, just a big baby throwing his toys around because he can't be a big ass racist and get his building blocks to build his wall.
I wish there was a system that told you the side stories related to what's going on. Like the fact that Trump n co were the ones who cut DACA in the first place.
Yes he is the one, and then even though polling said DACA was very popular, he did it anyway only for people in his core base getting their wives and husbands deported.
And then suddenly it was a problem he cared about.
Worth mentioning this spending bill has Russia sanctions inside it.
He's trying to make the Democrats look horrible by "forgetting" about these poor DACA people. He has such a big heart!
It's like holding a person at gunpoint and blaming the cops for not caring how you got there in the first place. Like you were forced to put the dude at gunpoint.
Yeah, nobody's buying it lol. Trump is the one who killed DACA to begin with, via executive order. Trump pretending tthat he's DACA's champion, hellbent on saving it in the face of those dirty Dems, is just embarrassing.
https://twitter.com/EdKrassen/status/977178148591644673
Q: What do you get if you take a Republican House, a Republican Senate, and a Republican President?
A: More government shutdowns than legislative accomplishments.
https://twitter.com/ReutersPolitics/status/977231095455473666
Waiting for the "No I'm not!" tweet from Trump any minute now.
welcome to todays program, last time trump almost started nuclear war and mcmaster was let go
and now today; will he veto the budget that didn't have the thing he said he would veto if it had it?
(no, he's a drama queen and is gonna sign the fucking thing)
lol, guess we'll see huh?
WaPo is also reporting that he decided to sign it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2018/03/23/trump-threatens-to-veto-omnibus-bill-because-it-does-not-address-daca-recipients/
People familiar with Trump’s thinking said the president was frustrated with the bill and the coverage it was receiving, particularly on Fox News, where critics took aim at the level of spending in the bill.
“He doesn’t care as much about the spending levels, but he knows all of his conservative friends do,” said a senior White House official, who requested anonymity to speak more candidly.
Narcissist that he is, he didn't like that it was making him look bad so he threatened to kill it and came up with an excuse to blame Democrats so his base would back his play. Just your daily reminder that the Commander in Chief is an emotionally-driven manbaby with insecurities too large to carry in his tiny hands who needs to be talked out of shitty and irreversible decisions by multiple aides.
It is hard to understand literally any decision that comes out of his diet coke riddled brain.
In case you aren't aware, conservatives and the far right are absolutely livid about this. the_donald is currently a massive salt pile.
but they were ecstatic about the tax cuts
Well, it turns out there was a whole bunch of good shit in the bill that wasn't to their liking. Lots of domestic spending increases, and all that money for increased border security has been explicitly specified to be for existing designs only, meaning the great wall of Trump is probably dead. This Washington Post article goes over all the specifics, but it looks like this bill was largely a win for the Democrats, excluding the military spending increases.
honestly, every day this country becomes more and more like a caricature. it's almost like everyone has collectively lost their mind. this bill has so much good and bad in one spot it's hard to tell what is happening anymore.
Am unable to confirm currently, but grapevine is that this bill "snuck in" major Russian sanctions. Can anyone find anything to support this?
I thought Mexico was paying for it?
That was NEVER going to happen. Pure campaign rhetoric that so many fools bought hook line and sinker.
At least some are smart enough to know that the Republican isn’t a Conservative party.
So, he supposedly "learned" from how he was forced to "work" during the government shut down a few months ago. The shut down he pretty much caused because he thought he could sneak off during so. Perhaps he will be able to get his own diet coke and truly be a big boy.
We really do live in strange and scary times.
Looked at that article and the spending bill seems pretty good, with some weird bits
The “grain glitch,” a provision in the new GOP tax law that favored farmer-owned cooperatives over traditional agriculture corporations by providing a significantly larger tax benefit for sales to cooperatives, is undone in the bill. Farm-state lawmakers and farming groups said that without a fix, the tax law could disrupt the farm economy and even put some companies out of business. The spending bill tweaks the tax law to level the playing field between sales to coops and corporations. Democrats in exchange got a 12.5 percent increase in annual allocations for a low-income housing tax credit for four years.
Should the bill pass, some minor-league ballplayers could see a raise this year — but only barely. The Save America’s Pastime Act exempts pro baseball players from federal labor laws and has been a major lobbying priority for Major League Baseball ever since minor-league players began suing the league in recent years for paying them illegally low wages. The version in the bill exempts only players working under a contract that pays minimum wage, but there are major loopholes: The contract has to pay minimum wage for a only 40-hour workweek during the season, not spring training or the offseason — and it includes no guarantee of overtime even though baseball prospects routinely work long hours. Thus, under the bill, a player is guaranteed a minimum salary of $1,160 a month. The current minor-league minimum is $1,100 a month
In December, the Labor Department proposed a rule that would allow employers such as restaurant owners to “pool” their employees’ tips and redistribute them as they saw fit — including, potentially, to themselves. That generated a bipartisan outcry, and the bill spells out explicitly in law that tip pooling is not permitted: “An employer may not keep tips received by its employees for any purposes, including allowing managers or supervisors to keep any portion of employees’ tips, regardless of whether or not the employer takes a tip credit.”
If you serve on a federal jury, your daily pay rate will increase to $50 per day — a bipartisan win sought in part after two dozen federal grand jurors in Washington petitioned House and Senate judiciary committee members last fall, saying the current pay rate is “abysmal,” below the minimum wage and a hardship.
And a good thing:
The federal ban on tax-exempt churches engaging in political activity, known as the Johnson Amendment, will continue, despite attempts by Trump and GOP lawmakers to rescind it.
This is an absolutely hilarious outcome. Dems get a lot of wins and Trump somehow manages to focus his base's tantrums on himself. Something only possible in 2018, folks.
There's something morbidly humorous in watching republican dipshits throwing tantrums because they're finally seeing what a fuckup they threw into the whitehouse
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