Oh, FFS. He's doing ANOTHER rally tomorrow night in Wilkes-Barre Township.

[Miles Archer]

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Join me tomorrow night at 7pmE in Wilkes-Barre Township, Pennsylvania for a MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN RALLY! Tickets: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/rallies/wilkes-barre-pa-august-2018/ …

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MEANWHILE:

White House: U.S. Can’t Afford Veterans’ Health Care Without Cuts

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/07/trump-u-s-cant-afford-veterans-health-care-without-cuts.html

July 17, 2018

Last year, the Trump administration insisted that its regressive tax cuts were so important, it was worth adding $1.5 trillion to the national debt to ensure their passage. Now, the White House is warning Congress that the United States cannot afford to add $1.6 billion to the deficit to expand health-care options for veterans.

In a letter Monday, the Trump administration demanded that lawmakers fund a popular veterans’ health-care program — which allows former troops to spend public funds on private doctors and hospitals — with cuts to other parts of the budget. Democrats, and some top Senate Republicans, prefer to raise the current caps on discretionary spending instead.

The case for the latter option is straightforward. Congressional spending falls into two categories: mandatory (funding for programs like Social Security, which increases automatically as more Americans qualify for benefits) and discretionary (spending that Congress must actively renew). When Congress passed its omnibus budget bill back in March, the private veterans’ health-care program was on the mandatory side of the ledger. Thus, although lawmakers knew that federal spending on the program was going to increase, they didn’t have to account for its cost when setting a discretionary budget.

But last month, president Trump signed a law that reorganized veterans’ health care, and shifted funding for the private program into the discretionary column. This did not significantly increase the overall cost of domestic spending — but it did lift the price tag on the discretionary budget above previously set caps. Which is to say: It produced a budget shortfall that wasn’t a product of changes in fiscal reality, so much as in accounting practices.

[liberalmuse]

1. "Hold me, MAGAS. I'm scared!"

He's using taxpayer dollars for this, too.

[lapfog_1]

2. we need to have someone there that counts noses... and takes pictures

I am convinced that probably 10% of the audience are paid to go to these things and whip up the crowds...

Sort of like that "sports" rally for Eagle fans they held a while back.

[kacekwl]

16. I was going to say

I bet you will see alot of the same faces. It's like a traveling shit show.

[CatMor]

3. Do we really need a president if all he does is ...

tweet, campaign, go to rallies and golf. It seems like we could sure do without him. We could save lots of money.

[eleny]

4. He's inching towards "A Face In The Crowd" pretty fast now

[roody]

15. +100

[markses66]

5. He's trying to gin up support (and build up his own courage) for firing Mueller

Three rallies in a week? Clown shit. He's in a spiraling depression, and using these moronic Klan gatherings as self-medication.

[D_Master81]

21. Exactly

He uses these people to feed his ego.

[brooklynite]

6. This is for the OH-12 Special...

[oberliner]

10. He is doing a rally in OH on Saturday

[JHB]

17. How is a rally in eastern Pennsylvania for an Ohio race?

[C_U_L8R]

7. And guess who pays for these boondoggles?

Trump's vanity will bankrupt us all.

[Va Lefty]

13. Yep. Between this and his golf excursions and "Military" parade... the list goes on and on

[Ohiogal]

8. How much taxpayer $ is being wasted

on Shitstain's continuous ego parties with his rubes?

November can't get here soon enough.

[Initech]

9. I really wish he'd shut up for about a week.

Or a month. Or a year. Hell I'd be willing to take a day silence.

[smirkymonkey]

19. I wish he would shut up forever.

I won't be satisfied until he does.

[honest.abe]

11. Signs of desperation.

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The Trump crime family knows the jig is just about up. They need to step up the brainwashing of their base in the hope that when the indictments come down they will rise up to such an extent that the Republicans will be afraid to do anything even if Mueller presents them will piles of irrefutable evidence he and his team committed crimes.

[benld74]

12. He will KEEP doing them to DEFLECT on what is happning in the trials that are upcoming and on going

[Bradshaw3]

14. It's a hole that will never be filled

He can have a rally every day - and probably will as the walls keep closing in - and it won't make up for those deep-seated issues about himself he will never face. I think it's more about his enormous psychological deficiencies than anything else.

[Ilsa]

18. I hope the media ignores him.

Sure, send some unknown folks uncover to document the fiasco.

[a kennedy]

20. This is his dream.......he used to just own the TV with the "your're fired" tv show.......now

he's doing the dream TV show as POTUS.

[gratuitous]

22. I'd chip in money for protesters

Have a crowd silently surround the venue all holding up Mueller face placards.

[Demovictory9]

23. yes. Get ready for lot of rallies over the next 90 days. He sees this as a way to whip up his base

for voting.