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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Jan 25, 2017, 12:54 PM Jan 2017

McCain: 'Leaning against' voting for Trump's budget pick

Source: The Hill

BY REBECCA SAVRANSKY - 01/25/17 09:18 AM EST

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Wednesday he is "leaning against" President Trump's pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

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McCain said he's "very, very worried" that Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.), Trump's nominee to head the OMB, will continue the efforts to "slash the military," which McCain said has been cut by 21 percent in the last eight years. "I don't think any of us believe that we're 21 percent safer," McCain added.

Mulvaney needs the support of 50 senators for his nomination to be confirmed. The GOP has a 52-seat majority, meaning Mulvaney could be blocked if three Republican senators join the entire Democratic conference in opposing him.

McCain also expressed concern with Mulvaney on Tuesday. He called out Mulvaney for a series of votes he made against increasing military funding and in favor of pulling U.S. troops from Afghanistan and Europe. “Maybe you don’t take it with the seriousness that it deserves,” McCain said of supporting the military during Mulvaney’s hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/defense/316021-mccain-says-hes-leaning-against-trumps-budget-pick

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McCain: 'Leaning against' voting for Trump's budget pick (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2017 OP
But will end up voting for him (and so will Lindsey Graham) Freethinker65 Jan 2017 #1
Until he isn't montanacowboy Jan 2017 #2
This choice makes no sense, trump is investing in military stocks for the wars he Eliot Rosewater Jan 2017 #3
21% MY ASS! Where in the hell did McCain come up with those alternate facts? Lochloosa Jan 2017 #4
Sure he is. SamKnause Jan 2017 #5
Bullshit from another coward world wide wally Jan 2017 #6

Eliot Rosewater

(31,096 posts)
3. This choice makes no sense, trump is investing in military stocks for the wars he
Wed Jan 25, 2017, 12:57 PM
Jan 2017

will start, of that I am certain.

So this will not go this way,either he gets a different guy or he makes this guy do his bidding.

Remember folks, nothing any republican ever does is for any reason other than to profit themselves personally.

I would say people like McCain are exceptions but he keeps proving his uselessness by voting for garbage like tillerson

SamKnause

(13,037 posts)
5. Sure he is.
Wed Jan 25, 2017, 01:14 PM
Jan 2017

Just like Rubio had reservations about Tillerson.

Fuck them all.

They vote in lockstep against anything that is good for America or

the American people.

Fuck them all !!!!!!!!!!!!

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