Here are the hard cold facts of the recent spending bill.

 Take it to the bank:  This was a huge defeat for Trump,  giving the Dems yet another victory in the GOP controlled congress.  The most telling of all events,  however,  is not the failure of GOP leadership to fight for the Trump Agenda.  Rather,  it is the fact that Mitch McConnell refuses to end the filibuster.  If Trump serves only one term and gets little done versus what he is desperately trying to complete,  the blame will fall on Senate Leadership  in general and Mitch McConnell,  specifically  ~  editor

The 2,300-page bill includes $1.3 trillion in federal government spending.
How does the omnibus reflect President Trump’s budget priorities?
In his 2019 budget request, President Trump wanted:
 
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Ÿ• To increase defense spending by $54 billion and then offset that by stripping money from more than 18 other agencies. Instead, non-military spending increased by $63 billion over last year.

 Six major issues the GOP used to tell Trump to "go to hell." 
Ÿ•Ÿ An additional $25 billion for a border wall. Instead, he got $1.6 billion for border security, of which only $38 million can be spent on “border barrier planning and design.”
Ÿ•Ÿ To eliminate the $152 million in funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Instead, the funding was increased by $3 million.
Ÿ•Ÿ To eliminate the $500 million in funding for the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER), a discretionary grant program launched as part of President Obama’s stimulus plan. Instead, the budget for TIGER was tripled to $1.5 billion.
Ÿ•Ÿ To eliminate the $3 billion in funding for Community Development Block Grants (CDBG). Instead, the budget was nearly doubled at $5,778,000.
Ÿ•Ÿ To eliminate the $309 million in funding for the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E). Instead, the budget was increased to $353,314,000.
Ÿ•Ÿ To cut spending for a research office on renewable energy and efficiency by more than 65 percent, from $1.3 billion to $696 million. Instead, the budget was increased by 14 percent to $1.62 billion.

So, what should have happened?  The Prez should have vetoed the bill, forcing Congress to "stand up and be counted" as the opposition force they truly are  (Republicans and Democrats).  Understand that by doing so,  the GOP Statists would have made targets of themselves in coming elections,  the military would have still received its money,  and the conservative base would have been put on notice as to the true leanings of their "conservative" leadership.