Trump Signs $1.3tr Budget To Avoid US Govt Shutdown

Meanwhile, with the midterms underway, McDaniel said she knows Trump will keep representing all GOP candidates, as he wants to “keep America on this great comeback under his leadership”.

Her comment came nearly a full day before Trump’s veto threat.

“I say to Congress, I will never sign another bill like this again”, Trump said.

He also appeals to Congress for a line-item veto that would grant him the ability to nix spending he disagrees with. Several aides scrambled to persuade the president not to follow through with his threat.

“The will-he, won’t-he episode came hours after the Senate early Friday morning passed the $1.3 trillion spending package aimed at keeping the government open past midnight”. You know, Paul Ryan went out and said, “It’s only six months!”

The White House and Republicans had reportedly offered Democrats a Daca extension of up to three years in return for full funding of Mr Trump’s wall.

The measure includes almost $1.6 billion for border security, including new technology and repairs to existing barriers – but not the wall specifically, as he claimed Wednesday on Twitter.

Trump fumed that a “crazy” lawmaking process had produced a bill that “nobody read” – but said he was signing it as a “matter of national security”. “We have $1.6 billion for the wall starting immediately”.

Even as he vented distaste for parts of the 2200-page bill that run counter to his agenda, the president repeated previous talking points about reversing deep cuts to military spending and giving a pay increase to troops. White House budget officials have nonetheless tried to spin the funding as a win.

The US House passed a Dollars 1.3 trillion spending package on Thursday, sending a legislation to the US Senate that would prevent a government shutdown and deliver the largest federal spending increase in years.

“F-k that”, Trump reportedly said, after being reminded that a budget deadline loomed at midnight, and he would be blamed if the federal government were to shut down again.

The centerpiece was a big increase in United States defense spending to $700 billion dollars, up $61 billion, and a 10 percent hike in domestic spending, which would rise to $591 billion. Defense spending is set to jump $80 billion over previously authorized spending levels, while domestic spending rises by $63 billion.

Instead, he vented his frustrations about the compromise-riddled legislation that is largely a product of the narrow Republican majority in Congress and called on the Senate to eliminate the filibuster that requires a 60-vote majority.

The bill easily passed by the House Thursday.

Earlier Friday Washington let out a collective gasp when Trump took to Twitter to rubbish the hard-won agreement, which dramatically expands military funding. “You can fix this”.

“There’s some resources for fencing and repairs and the rest there. but some of that money is for technology and other ways to protect our border”, Pelosi, D-Calif., said Thursday on the House floor. “But generally speaking, we think this is a really, really good immigration package”. He also labeled the bill a “Mitch McConnell special”, and criticized it because it contained “no wall” funding.

There would have been little recourse if Trump had gone through with his threat.

Lawmakers in the Republican-dominated Senate and House of Representatives had already left Washington for a scheduled two-week spring recess, and Trump himself was scheduled on Friday to fly to Florida for a weekend at his private resort.