Rove was interviewed on Stuart Varney (Fox Business) and complained about Trump's dealing with the Dems, especially as that has to do with domestic, annual finance legislation. As you may know, Trump made a deal, Wednesday morning, for a three month provision to finance government, instead of the 18 month finance deal that was being proposed by GOP leadership. Understand that after the GOP took five freaking weeks off, returning on Tuesday, they only have 10 legislative days to get a growing mountain of work done before the end of the fiscal year, September 30. Sadly, leadership no longer has timeto do anything about Obama Care, which means we have been lied too, all along, by the likes of Flake and that other flack, John McCain. Their intentions, all along, was to pretend to support "repeal and replace," while holding up that legislation until it was too late to pass reform before the end of September. Why is "the end of September" so important? Because before the 30th, we could have repealed ObamaCare with 51 votes, Beginning with the 1st of October, it will take 60 votes, which means a required Democrat support. Take it to the bank, John McCain knew this when he pulled his cute little trick in the Senate. Bastard.
Back to the three month funding deal Trump made with the Dems.
Carl Rove had this to say about Trumps deal with the Dems: " . . . . . you have House Republicans who want to use the "debt ceiling vote" in order to get spending restraints and, then, you've got the leadership in the House and Senate Republicans who do not want to have to revisit this issue continually between now and the 2018 election. They wanted to get this so they had a debt ceiling vote that got us past the 2018 election."
Turns out, Rove's objections were so much nonsense. In making his comments to Varney, he failed to mention that Trump is working on a deal to get rid of the "debt ceiling" restriction, altogether. Understand that the GOP has never used the debt ceiling, successfully, to force the Dems to cut spending. And so, every year, we spend more than the year before.
Trump simply combined three major decisions (the debt ceiling, aid to Harvey victims, and, the DACA six month extension). Again, the "I wanna take another vacation" Republicans, only have 9 days, including this coming Monday, to get things done under the 51 vote rule. At the end of the month, the filibuster rule kicks and John McCain will have his precious "regular order" and Obama Care repeal will be officially dead.
Now you know.
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