It appears now that Trump is now working with Congress to repeal some of the big spending they passed in the $1.3 trillion dollar spending bill:
NY POST – Suffering from signer’s remorse, President Trump now wants Congress to repeal some of the $1.3 trillion spending bill he signed into law last month.
“We are looking at an enhanced rescission package,” new White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow confirmed on “Fox News Sunday.”
The massive spending package beefed up domestic and military spending but didn’t include the money that Trump wanted to build his wall on the Mexican border and a legislative fix to protect young undocumented immigrants under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
The bipartisan deal was forged in Congress to keep the government funded through September.
Trump and Republicans got an earful from their base about adding to the deficit and not demanding border wall funding.
Now, the White House is working with Congress on new legislation to undo some of the spending.
“I think the Republican Party on the Hill has finally figured out it’s really not a bad idea to trim some spending,” said Kudlow, White House National Economic Council Director. “Because after all, spending can lead to deficits and spending interferes with the economy. ”
“President Trump is a deregulator and a tax cutter. We want a much more modest government role,” he continued.Trump had initially threatened on Twitter to veto the spending bill but caved into signing the hard-fought bipartisan deal to avoid a government shutdown.
Now, the White House and GOP leaders in the House and Senate are drafting a plan to rescind billions of dollars in spending, Axios reported Sunday.
While I absolutely hated to see Trump sign the big spending bill in the first place to avoid the government shut down, I certainly welcome the prospect of Trump and Republicans actually repealing some of the spending – hopefully a substantial portion of it.
It would be easy to bash Trump for signing in the bipartisan behemoth in the first place, only to try and repeal some of it afterward. But really, don’t we want him to listen to reason and change his mind, even if it is after the fact?
And he’s not the only one here to blame. Quite a lot of Republicans joined with Democrats to put this stinker on Trump’s desk in the first place, right before the government was going to shut down. Just sayin’.
The bottom line for me is this. We don’t know how much spending they are actually targeting and if they can even pass a repeal. I suspect most, if not all of the Republicans who refused to vote for the bill in the first place – because of the enormous spending – will glady vote to repeal parts of it. The question is can the Senate get enough votes to get a good sized repeal to the finish line.
I have my doubts, but I’ll cross my fingers anyway.