Trump, Senate GOP agree on frame of fast-track spending bill

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Source: msn/Bloomberg

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(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump and top Senate Republicans agreed Friday to the outline of a partisan fast-track spending bill aimed at bypassing minority Democrats and focused on providing funding for immigration enforcement and the US Border Patrol.

The president and party leaders are pushing back against efforts by some rank-and-file GOP lawmakers to include new tax cuts and additional rollbacks in health care and other entitlement programs in this year’s package. The GOP strategy instead appears to call for mostly limiting the fast-track package to Homeland Security-related provisions and passing it through Congress by June.

“I am calling for the Bill to be done no later than June 1st, and on my desk,” Trump said in a social media post after meeting with John Barrasso, the No. 2 Senate Republican, and Senator Lindsey Graham. “The Department cannot wait any longer for full funding.”. Barrasso called the meeting “productive” and the goal is to get a “focused reconciliation bill that funds ICE and Border Patrol” to Trump’s desk by his deadline.

The bill’s funding would cover the remaining three years of Trump’s term and would first go through the Senate, Graham told Fox News host Bret Baier later Friday.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-senate-gop-agree-on-outline-of-fast-track-spending-bill/ar-AA20C8qM

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1. Where is the GQP Majority Leader?..................

I'm pretty sure they have hidden other nasty bills in this bullshit agreement and one I can think of is the fucked up dictator's voting bill.

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2. Graham saying they'll pass it "without one Democratic vote"

hmmm

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3. They want to try to pass an appropriation bill using reconciliation

which only needs a simple majority in the Senate... But that is nuts given they are SUPPOSED TO have REGULAR "annual" appropriations bills and if Congress is going to ignore that requirement and try to shoe-horn "salaries" and other things normally done in appropriations bills, into a "reconciliation" because they don't have the votes to do it any other way, then that should be thrown out by the Parliamentarian.

A reconciliation bill is *supposed to be* a "budget framework", where either spending, taxing, or debt servicing (debt limit) is specified, and numbers get plugged into it (that will HAVE TO HAVE separate, additional legislation passed to be referenced), for whatever category (whether singly or in a combo of two ore all three) is/are chosen for that bill.

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4. You might instruct the BB editor and journalist

The public needs to know. Such esoteric angles are not common knowledge, not even among the elites who read BB.

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5. IMHO

EVERY news outlet needs some kind of specialist who is knowledgeable about government functions. But that is at the bottom of their priority list for positions.

I remember back in 2009 - 2010 when Congress was doing the hearings and markups for the ACA, and there were at least 6 Congressional Committees (3 in each Chamber - House and Senate) working on that - each with their own contributory markups of legislation.

But whenever any of the Committees announced where they were so far, the idiot media kept reporting THAT Committee's DRAFT as "the bill", as if it was the "final" one.

I kept yelling at the TV - NO!!!!! It's a DRAFT from ONE COMMITTEE in ONE CHAMBER.

Once those Committees got their drafts done, THEN EACH Chamber would have to eventually combine them into a single draft for consideration - debate and a vote, and then the Chambers needed to agree on ONE BILL (which they usually do by creating a "Joint Conference Committee with members from both Chambers to agree to one version) for the Congress to finally debate and vote on. Alternately, one Chamber might "take the lead" and get ideas from the other Chamber and incorporate that into what will be a SINGLE bill that will be used for both Chambers to consider/vote on.

It drove me insane.