Paul Ryan: ‘I Wasn’t Furious’ Over Trump’s Budget Deal With Democrats

The U.S. House approved $15 billion in aid to support those affected by Hurricane Harvey’s destruction in southeast Texas on Friday, sending the legislation to President Donald Trump’s desk for his signature. The package includes more than $6 billion in additional FEMA funds as part of the bill funding the government through December, bringing the total disaster funds closer to $22 billion.

But Trump again focused the tension in a Friday morning tweet thread, when he needled Republicans for not being able to pass a repeal of the Affordable Care Act and encouraged McConnell to eliminate the filibuster in the Senate, a move McConnell has resolutely stated will not happen.

Republicans wanted a budget and debt deal that extended further than three months and, in fact, so should Americans, generally.

Some moderate House Republicans, however, praised the Trump-brokered deal with Democratic leaders. Anyone blocking that deal now would delay hurricane relief and could face serious political consequences.

“We need to make sure that the government responds to people”, he said.

“His performance was incredibly poor, and his last words, and I quote, were ‘vote for the debt ceiling for me, ‘” Republican North Carolina Rep. Mark Walker said, according to The Hill.

The Harvey aid provisions are popular with voters, and Democratic strategists believe a number of Republicans who could have tough races in 2018 ― like Kevin Yoder (R-Kan.), Peter Roskam (R-Ill.) and Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) ― made a mistake by opposing the bill.

“We essentially came to a deal, and I think the deal will be very good”, he said.

He added, “We made things a lot better – avoided government shutdown for a period of time, avoided the government not paying its debt, got Harvey funded – in a way that passed the Senate overwhelmingly”.

Democrats want Congress to pass legislation addressing the Dreamers without other issues attached, but Ms Pelosi did not rule out including border security measures that Mr Trump and Mr Ryan want.

“Trump and Schumer have agreed to pursue a deal that would permanently remove the requirement that Congress repeatedly raise the debt ceiling, three people familiar with the decision said”, reported The Washington Post’s Damian Paletta and Ashley Parker on Thursday.

The bill provides a short-term extension for government funding and the federal borrowing limit until December 8. “And I certainly would expect to continue to see that”.

“It was intellectually close to dishonest in that he said, ‘I understand you on the debt, I understand you on this, I feel your pain, but you’ve got to bail out the Treasury bill, ‘” Brat said.