Trump tweets create confusion on GOP plan to avert shutdown; Ryan tries to calm Republicans

[riversedge]

Source: washpost






The White House said Thursday that President Trump supports a short-term spending bill to avert a government shutdown, as eroding support for the measure among Senate Democrats and some Republicans increased the prospects of a closure.

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The short-term spending bill would keep the government open through Feb. 16 while extending a children’s health insurance program, and rolling back several taxes in the Affordable Care Act. House Republicans hoped to hold a vote as soon as Thursday, and Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) expressed confidence it would pass. ...........................................


..........GOP lawmakers had spent the morning trying to make sense of Trump’s early-morning tweets, which seemed to directly contradict the Republican legislative strategy by calling for the separation of a long-term extension of the popular Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) from a short-term spending bill to keep the government open through mid-February.

While Republicans like Ryan suggested that the president was endorsing the GOP’s approach, others found the tweets inexplicable and unhelpful ahead of a possible election-year shutdown. ............................

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/trump-upends-gop-strategy-to-avoid-shutdown-with-call-to-settle-childhood-insurance-impasse/2018/01/18/be61af62-fc56-11e7-a46b-a3614530bd87_story.html?tid=pm_pop&utm_term=.0895c89742ed

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#shitholePresidentTrump truly is stupid.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

1. That's because Trump is confused.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. And Bannon is now laughing his ass off

It's like a booby-trap just got detonated.

[duforsure]

3. No matter what they come up with

he'll create another excuse to reject it, so Republicans need to smarten up to what he's doing to them almost on a daily basis to make them look bad, and get together with the Dems for a veto proof bill, and try to show the American people they'll stand up to him for once, and take away his power. If they don't , this will continue, and get worse for them until election time. Right now they are in a bad spot if they don't start doing this, and soon. He's intentionally sabotaging them. He done this in business many times.

[caballojm]

4. I like the part where you say "Republicans need to smarten up."

It's pretty funny

[tanyev]

5. Pssst! Hey, GOP, your f**king moron got loose again.

[Astraea]

6. I had no idea the government was administered like this

On a month to month basis? Yikes.