#MAGA: President Trump’s Omnibus Debacle

Yesterday, the MAGA movement come to its ignominious end:

“WASHINGTON — President Trump, hours after threatening to veto a $1.3 trillion spending bill and throwing the capital into turmoil, signed it into law on Friday, yielding to advisers and Republican leaders who urged him against manufacturing a government shutdown crisis.

Even as he signed the bill, the president seethed about being forced to swallow legislation that broadly repudiated an agenda that once foresaw the reshaping of the federal government into his “America First” image.

Enactment of the bipartisan spending package, which had seemed like a certainty at dawn, brought an end to hours of chaos at the White House, where Mr. Trump surprised his advisers — and Republican congressional leaders — with an angry morning tweet threatening to sink a measure that his aides had already promised he would sign. …”

I am considering a VETO of the Omnibus Spending Bill based on the fact that the 800,000 plus DACA recipients have been totally abandoned by the Democrats (not even mentioned in Bill) and the BORDER WALL, which is desperately needed for our National Defense, is not fully funded.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 23, 2018

As a matter of National Security I’ve signed the Omnibus Spending Bill. I say to Congress: I will NEVER sign another bill like this again. To prevent this omnibus situation from ever happening again, I’m calling on Congress to give me a line-item veto for all govt spending bills! https://t.co/kYwMk5AE5k

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 23, 2018

I woke up to the news that President Trump was threatening to veto the omnibus bill. I was speechless when he folded on his own threat and signed it several hours later.

– The omnibus bill BANS President Trump from building any own his own border wall prototypes which he recently toured in California.

– The omnibus bill funds Planned Parenthood.

– The omnibus bill allocates less than half of a billion dollars to extend the existing fence by only 33 miles.

– The omnibus bill authorizes $1.3 trillion in government spending.

– The omnibus bill  contained $1.8 billion for border security … in Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan and Lebanon.

– The omnibus bill more than doubled spending on security grants that go to Jewish institutions.

– The omnibus bill included the annual $3.1 billion in foreign aid to Israel.

– The omnibus bill authorizes $655 billion in military spending.

In other words, the die is cast for the MAGA movement. The omnibus bill was expected to be the LAST major piece of legislation to pass Congress before the 2018 midterms. Republicans were already set to get blown out in the midterms and this will further destroy the morale of the conservative base. If the GOP loses Congress, President Trump’s domestic agenda is essentially dead until the 2020 election cycle.

Donald Trump is basically now a lame duck president except in foreign policy. All is going to have to show for it is the tax cuts, deregulation, military spending and gibs for Israel … the same shit that any conservative president would have done if Mitt Romney or Jeb Bush had won the presidency.