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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOh, FFS. He's doing ANOTHER rally tomorrow night in Wilkes-Barre Township.
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Join me tomorrow night at 7pmE in Wilkes-Barre Township, Pennsylvania for a MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN RALLY! Tickets: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/rallies/wilkes-barre-pa-august-2018/
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MEANWHILE:
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/07/trump-u-s-cant-afford-veterans-health-care-without-cuts.html
July 17, 2018
Last year, the Trump administration insisted that its regressive tax cuts were so important, it was worth adding $1.5 trillion to the national debt to ensure their passage. Now, the White House is warning Congress that the United States cannot afford to add $1.6 billion to the deficit to expand health-care options for veterans.
In a letter Monday, the Trump administration demanded that lawmakers fund a popular veterans health-care program which allows former troops to spend public funds on private doctors and hospitals with cuts to other parts of the budget. Democrats, and some top Senate Republicans, prefer to raise the current caps on discretionary spending instead.
The case for the latter option is straightforward. Congressional spending falls into two categories: mandatory (funding for programs like Social Security, which increases automatically as more Americans qualify for benefits) and discretionary (spending that Congress must actively renew). When Congress passed its omnibus budget bill back in March, the private veterans health-care program was on the mandatory side of the ledger. Thus, although lawmakers knew that federal spending on the program was going to increase, they didnt have to account for its cost when setting a discretionary budget.
But last month, president Trump signed a law that reorganized veterans health care, and shifted funding for the private program into the discretionary column. This did not significantly increase the overall cost of domestic spending but it did lift the price tag on the discretionary budget above previously set caps. Which is to say: It produced a budget shortfall that wasnt a product of changes in fiscal reality, so much as in accounting practices.
liberalmuse
(18,672 posts)He's using taxpayer dollars for this, too.
lapfog_1
(29,219 posts)I am convinced that probably 10% of the audience are paid to go to these things and whip up the crowds...
Sort of like that "sports" rally for Eagle fans they held a while back.
kacekwl
(7,021 posts)I bet you will see alot of the same faces. It's like a traveling shit show.
CatMor
(6,212 posts)tweet, campaign, go to rallies and golf. It seems like we could sure do without him. We could save lots of money.
eleny
(46,166 posts)markses66
(94 posts)Three rallies in a week? Clown shit. He's in a spiraling depression, and using these moronic Klan gatherings as self-medication.
D_Master81
(1,822 posts)He uses these people to feed his ego.
brooklynite
(94,698 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)JHB
(37,161 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,018 posts)Trump's vanity will bankrupt us all.
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)Ohiogal
(32,044 posts)on Shitstain's continuous ego parties with his rubes?
November can't get here soon enough.
Initech
(100,099 posts)Or a month. Or a year. Hell I'd be willing to take a day silence.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I won't be satisfied until he does.
honest.abe
(8,680 posts)Last edited Wed Aug 1, 2018, 06:33 PM - Edit history (1)
The Trump crime family knows the jig is just about up. They need to step up the brainwashing of their base in the hope that when the indictments come down they will rise up to such an extent that the Republicans will be afraid to do anything even if Mueller presents them will piles of irrefutable evidence he and his team committed crimes.
benld74
(9,909 posts)Bradshaw3
(7,527 posts)He can have a rally every day - and probably will as the walls keep closing in - and it won't make up for those deep-seated issues about himself he will never face. I think it's more about his enormous psychological deficiencies than anything else.
Ilsa
(61,697 posts)Sure, send some unknown folks uncover to document the fiasco.
a kennedy
(29,696 posts)he's doing the dream TV show as POTUS.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Have a crowd silently surround the venue all holding up Mueller face placards.
Demovictory9
(32,468 posts)for voting.