Speaker Paul Ryan is set to pass the largest spending bill in US history next to Barack Obama’s trillion dollar failed stimulus.
President Trump spoke on Monday about the importance of the border wall with Mexico to enhance national security and battle the opioid crisis in America.
But once again it is unlikely that funding for the border wall will be included in the spending bill.
Democrats don’t want it.
So it is unlikely Ryan will include it in the bill.
Planned Parenthood and funding for sanctuary cities will be included in the bill.
Politico reported:
Congressional leaders and top White House officials are clearing the way for a massive $1.3 trillion spending bill, scrapping several last-minute attempts to tack on controversial policy riders ahead of a Friday deadline to fund the government.
Trump administration and Hill GOP sources say the new spending package is unlikely to include legislation shoring up Obamacare’s insurance markets. One White House official called it a “heavy lift” — even as President Donald Trump made a last-minute push Monday to include the provision in the legislation.
The president also asked GOP leaders over the weekend to include a short-term patch shielding Dreamers from deportation for 2.5 years in return for $25 billion in wall funding. But Democrats — whose votes are needed for passage — balked at the idea, and Republicans appear ready to drop it.
Roughly $900 million in transportation funding for a massive New York-New Jersey infrastructure project is also expected to get sidelined because of Trump’s veto threat on the so-called Gateway Project. Gone too are conservative demands to defund Planned Parenthood or cut off money to sanctuary cities that protect undocumented immigrants.
Trump put our national security first today. Here’s why. The world is destabilized and with our depleted military, we could not wage a two front war if attacked by Russia and China. We also are never likely to see a military increase budget this large in the next 20 years. And with how destabilized the world have become we can’t take that risk. Also, this starts the actual physical building of the wall. Once its started, physically, its much harder to stop the wall project all together. Also there is no provision that says in time of world military conflict, you couldn’t divert funds from the DOD to fund building the rest of the wall. The Dems held out hope since the wall wasn’t started, they could have it off the table and out of this bill. That hope is gone now.
Daca is something we can work on in Congress and address. With world conflicts on the brink of starting, national defense trumps Daca. I don’t like the bill myself, but the risk of losing 80 billion worth of military upgrades all around and pay increases for the military members was far too great. And this put Congress on notice the filibusterer rule will be out. This was a crap sandwich, but we had to sign for the above mentioned.