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enhanced_deficit
02-15-2019, 11:14 AM
Even if MAGA and parts of DC swamp around him are not perfect/purists, this is not the appropriate language when discussing sitting MAGA and his allies:

Former GOP House Intel chair: McConnell eating 'manure sandwich' with Trump's national emergency

By John Bowden - 02/15/19 261 (https://thehill.com/homenews/house/430169-former-gop-house-intel-chair-mcconnell-eating-manure-sandwich-on-trump-calling#bottom-story-socials)

A former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee says that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is eating a "manure sandwich" over President Trump's decision to declare a national emergency over illegal border crossings while signing a deal to keep the federal government open.

Former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) told CNN on Friday that McConnell was not happy to endorse Trump's plan to declare a national emergency in order to reallocate funding for construction of a border wall.
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“You’re watching Mitch McConnell eat a manure sandwich in this whole process," Rogers said, adding that McConnell was most concerned with averting another government shutdown.

"You can tell, in the mannerisms, in the body language, in the language itself, of Mitch McConnell ... he's where he is because he thought it would be expedient to make sure the government didn't shut down," he added.
"He's not yet enjoying that manure sandwich this morning," he quipped again, moments later.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/430169-former-gop-house-intel-chair-mcconnell-eating-manure-sandwich-on-trump-calling

Superfluous Man
02-15-2019, 11:23 AM
Trump's plan to declare a national emergency in order to reallocate funding for construction of a border wall.

Have any details been released about specifically what funding is being reallocated? What is it not going to get spent on any more that it was originally going to be spent on?

Cleaner44
02-15-2019, 11:31 AM
Politics are crap. The federal government is crap. The money they take and spend is crap. The money they spend that is borrowed against future taxpayers is crap.

I don't think there is any stopping this mess.

dannno
02-15-2019, 11:34 AM
Have any details been released about specifically what funding is being reallocated? What is it not going to get spent on any more that it was originally going to be spent on?


federal military construction and counterdrug efforts -AP