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babylonsister

(171,057 posts)
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 07:28 PM Mar 2018

Trumps biggest fans arent buying his excuses not to veto the omnibus spending bill

Now NO BODY likes him!


Trump’s biggest fans aren’t buying his excuses not to veto the omnibus spending bill
“Trump just threw away the rest of his Presidency.”
By Jane Coastonjane.coaston@vox.com Mar 23, 2018, 4:40pm EDT


After President Trump signed a massive 2,323-page omnibus spending bill on Friday — one which conservative publications deemed “an embarrassment and a disgrace” and Trump had initially threatened to veto — many conservative pundits, including some of Trump’s biggest fans, were incensed.

The bill gives a big boost to military funding (a major conservative point of emphasis), but it doesn’t defund Planned Parenthood — a longtime GOP promise — and adds roughly $1 trillion to the deficit. As right-wing podcast host Mark Pantano declared on Twitter, “Trump just threw away the rest of his Presidency.”

Immigration restrictionists who have long demanded a border wall were particularly disappointed.
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh described Trump’s signing the omnibus as “stabbing me in the back” because of its lack of border wall funding (the bill includes $1.6 billion for 30 miles of fencing and enhanced security measures, to which Breitbart said simply: “RIP BORDER WALL”).

The ire at Trump poured in from across the internet, particularly from conservatives who have long argued that Trumpism was a real political ideology — one that this omnibus bill would violate. Unfortunately, the fans of Trumpism keep getting confronted with the realities of the man himself.

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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/23/17156968/trump-omnibus-right-wing-spending

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Trumps biggest fans arent buying his excuses not to veto the omnibus spending bill (Original Post) babylonsister Mar 2018 OP
Dude had a golf vacation in FL to get too, people ... what's not to understand? mr_lebowski Mar 2018 #1
Tee times wait for no one. Lochloosa Mar 2018 #2
 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
1. Dude had a golf vacation in FL to get too, people ... what's not to understand?
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 07:41 PM
Mar 2018

Sheesh, such plebes and simpletons ...

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