Senate Republicans want to pass Obama's 2017 budget, not Trump's

[HAPPY2BME]

November 18, 2016
By Ed Straker

Senate Republicans want to pass Obama's 2017 budget, not Trump's

Donald Trump has asked Republicans who control Congress to delay action on a 2017 budget until he gets into office.  House Speaker Paul Ryan has apparently agreed, but Senate Republicans have other ideas.

But Republican leaders in the Senate did not immediately sign on to the plan, reflecting their desire to get contentious spending battles out of the way this year.

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, left open the possibility of an agreement with the House [but won't commit to it now].

But signaling that the longstanding tensions between the House and Senate may not abate under a more unified Republican government, some Senate Republicans expressed concern that waiting until early next year could distract them from other legislative priorities.

The way the budget process has worked for the last eight years is that Obama told Congress exactly how much money he wanted, and Congress, afraid of Obama shutting down the government and blaming them, gave Obama 100%.  This is the process that Blunt, Alexander, and perhaps even McConnell still want to continue, even with Trump's election as president.  If they do this again, this will needlessly lock Obama's budget into Trump's first year as president.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/11/senate_republicans_want_to_pass_obamas_2017_budget_not_trumps.html

[docstew]

Has the House already passed 0bama's budget? If not, I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter WHAT the Senate wants to do at all.

[Eupher]

When that twit Lamar Alexander says that Trump wouldn't want to spend time "cleaning up" Barry's POS budget, what he really means is he wants to spend, spend, spend before the well runs dry.

**** you, elite GOP. Stop spending our GD money, assholes. It's because of asswipes like you that we're in the financial mess we're in.

[HAPPY2BME]

When that twit Lamar Alexander says that Trump wouldn't want to spend time "cleaning up" Barry's POS budget, what he really means is he wants to spend, spend, spend before the well runs dry.

**** you, elite GOP. Stop spending our GD money, assholes. It's because of asswipes like you that we're in the financial mess we're in.

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We DO have at least ONE thing to thank Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell's elitist, globalist, neocon governing regime terms of office, and actions while in office for - > Donald Trump.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Actually the Senate has never passed one of Obama's budgets, even in the years when he actually delivered one on time, they've always been DOA and the actual budgets passed have all been products of negotiations in the Congress.

[DumbAss Tanker]

I don't believe the Senate has ever actually passed one of Obama's budgets, even in the years when he actually delivered one on time, they've always been DOA and the actual budgets passed have all been products of negotiations in the Congress.