On Monday, President Donald Trump announced via Twitter that he had reached a budget deal with Congress that adds trillions to the national debt and greatly increases federal spending for the coming fiscal year, leading Politico to give the president a new nickname: Deficit Don.
For his part, the president made it sound like he’d just struck the greatest deal in the history of mankind:
I am pleased to announce that a deal has been struck with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy – on a two-year Budget and Debt Ceiling, with no poison pills….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 22, 2019
….This was a real compromise in order to give another big victory to our Great Military and Vets!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 22, 2019
But as the old saying goes, the devil’s in the details, and the budget plan will raise federal spending caps by $320 billion over the next two years, which absolutely outraged many fiscal conservatives, who quickly expressed their outrage on social media:
I will vote no on this so-called “deal.” The GOP is now, in the name of “defense spending,” mortgaging our future national & economic security. But worse, unlimited bipartisan government spending risks losing our character & sense of self-reliance as a nation. #RejectSpendingDeal https://t.co/B6oEa0yDnV
— Chip Roy (@chiproytx) July 23, 2019
Now the Repub leader will come to the House and say “vote for it: lots of spending for the military” and Dem leader will come to the House and say “vote for it: more welfare and no funding to stop illegal immigration.” And big biz will say “fund all the things, we like debt.” https://t.co/DAKvAZvaWU
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) July 23, 2019
This, my friends, is why not a single mile of border wall or deportations have been funded for 2.5 years. Never threatens to veto or even push back or even get McConnell to fight them. Totally blesses their spending as his own. Thus, Dems have no reason to play ball on border. https://t.co/0cUKqtndji
— Daniel Horowitz (@RMConservative) July 22, 2019
This is a bad deal that puts us many steps closer to bankruptcy. No leaders in Washington want to restore any fiscal sanity. Why is it always only a D in the White House and Rs in Congress that get us fiscal sanity, i.e. Clinton balanced budget & sequestration under Obama?
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) July 23, 2019
My new op-ed on today’s awful $320 billion budget deal:
The Budget Control Act ends with Congress appropriating $770 billion above its caps since 2014. What is left of the 2010 tea party movement sees its only major spending cut shredded by today’s GOP.https://t.co/DvS9F8xfRR
— Brian Riedl (@Brian_Riedl) July 22, 2019
But perhaps the biggest hissy fit came from Fox host Laura Ingraham:
Not acceptable. Spending out the wazoo—the only thing that began to reduce the budget deficit was the 2013 sequester spending caps. https://t.co/VZ6Ml0c0ld
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) July 22, 2019
Ingraham, like many of the Trump faithful, is finally realizing that Donald Trump is a con man who snookered them, too. Too bad they didn’t figure that out before the helped elect the Liar-in-Chief.
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