Quote:
Originally Posted by bond284
What's the source for this? All sources I'm finding are 25 billion over 10 years. Why would any of that not be guaranteed unless the senate and house both vote to cut that spending later on? Was it the schumer bill(54-45)? Was it the Grassley bill that didn't even get 40 yeas?
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by bond284
Your very source cites:
.
Follow by
This is the usual theme with this admin. What they say they want will eventually be contradicted by something they say or do later on.
This is how funding usually works. Its x dollars over y number of years. Dems or repubs don't like to cut projects once a shit ton of projects get contracts signed and the pork gets brought into people's districts.
25 billion in one shot isn't in the realm of possibility as projects don't have costs all front loaded and appropriated in the first year.
Trump spiked the best deal he was ever going to get. He had all the leverage with a house and senate majority and he couldn't pull it together.
|
Yes they will say one thing today and say another thing tomorrow, that isn’t the argument. But if you read the article there is a big difference in authorizations and immediately appropriating the funds.
An authorization could have easily been taken away once the Democrats won back the House or the Senate, as in immediately appropriating the funds Trump would have received something that would have been guaranteed.
Why would Trump give us full on citizenship for something that the Democrats could of take away once they won’t back either the House or the Senate in 2018?
Negotiating wise would have made no sense for him and he would have been the biggest loser by now. He would have received $1.6 billion in exchange for 800k citizenship for dreamers. Can you imagine the backlash from his base. This was no brainer for him to turn this deal down.