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Trump Continues To Disappoint


By Joel Skousen
This Is A Snip From Joel's Superb 'World Affairs Brief' Newsletter
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4-28-17

 
This week Trump made several important compromises that are disappointing for supporters who hoped for real change in Washington. He allowed budget negotiations to push aside funding for his key campaign promise to “build the wall,” agreed not to pull out of NAFTA, and now VP Pence has agreed to honor Obama’s promise to take refugees off the hands of the Australian PM who doesn’t want them in his country. Trump has failed to stop refugees who continue to pour into the US in record numbers without proper vetting. But the worst compromises came in the budget bill where Trump agreed to support maintaining Obamacare funding of subsidies in order to please Democrats.

Democrats had tacitly agreed to back the budget if funding for the physical wall was omitted, and then sensing they could get more demanded the funding of Obamacare subsidies. After two major compromises they are still refusing to back the bill wondering how much more they can extract from Trump. He’s turning out to be an easy mark for compromise. ­So much for the “art of the deal.” Above all, the Democrats have delayed any agreement until after his first 100 days passes so the budget deal can’t be added to his small “success list.”

Trump justified compromising on his signature campaign promise by saying he was simply going to fund it in September when the new fiscal year begins for federal spending. But what makes Trump think it’s going to be any easier then? Somebody is feeding Trump a line that any experienced politician in Washington would see as a lie.

Democrats suckered Trump in by saying they would agree to some new money for border security as long as it was not for a wall. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer continues to push the line that smart technology like drones is “a much more effective way to secure the border.” This is completely wrong. Cameras and drones might tell agents miles away that someone is crossing the border, but by the time they get there, they are long gone and must be hunted down and captured at the risk of a violent confrontation. A physical wall keeps most of that from happening.

RINO Republican senator and globalist Lindsey Graham vowed, “There will never be a 2,200-mile wall built, period.” Sadly, he may be right, seeing the ease at which Trump can be compromised. Sen. Rob Portman, a key Republican on the Senate appropriation committee is likewise talking down the wall saying “there could be a wall in some places and technology in other places,” implying a willingness not to build the wall.   (end of snip)