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"House Democrats are banding together this week in opposition to President Trump’s 2020 budget proposal, but the unity may prove to be short-lived as party leaders prepare their own budget blueprint in the weeks ahead.
Democrats are coming off of a trying week following an uproar over controversial remarks from freshman Rep. Ilhan (D-Minn.) — an episode that both distracted from their ambitious legislative agenda and exposed internal fissures within the diverse caucus.
Trump’s budget has provided the party a chance to regroup, as Democrats of all stripes are bashing the president’s spending wish list and using the document as a way to unite around their shared values.
Yet drafting their 2020 budget blueprint will be much tougher for Democrats than attacking that of the president, forcing the party to make formal endorsements of their own policy priorities amid simmering internal disagreements over how best to approach health care, immigration, climate change and a host of other thorny issues.
The Democrats’ most liberal wing has also emerged as its most vocal, and those progressives have pressed hard for party leaders to embrace a long list of policy provisions that would yank the party to the left just as the pivotal 2020 election cycle gets rolling.
The left’s priority list includes a “Medicare for all” health care system, a Green New Deal to tackle climate change and the elimination of funding for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — all of which will likely alienate more moderate Democrats fighting to keep their seats in conservative-leaning districts next year."
The Democratic Party is caught between a hypocritical 'rock' and a fiscal reality' 'hard place' - they have been aggressively attacking the GOP and Trump administration for amassing significant increased debt....while promoting and advocating fiscally disastrous Leftist Socialist Policies guaranteed to immediately add nearly $100 TRILLION in new debt over 10 years...and that's only for 1 (ONE) of their proposed potential 2020 platform programs.
The Socialist Democrats' 'Medicare-For-All' program, which would strip Americans of their right to choose their own health care policies and make their own health care choices, will reportedly add $32.6 TRILLION in new debt over only 10 years...
"Medicare for all" plan touted by Bernie Sanders would cost $32.6 trillion. Sen. Bernie Sanders' "Medicare for all" plan would increase government health care spending by $32.6 trillion over 10 years, according to a study by a university-based libertarian policy center."
AOC's 'Green New Deal - which is supposed to upgrade or rebuild every building in the US / make air travel obsolete with high speed rail / end use of the internal combustion engine, oil, natural gas, and nuclear energy - 98% of the energy the US currently runs on, a plan which would put approx 30-40 million Americans out of work, and win the war on cow farts, & would rely on technology that has not even been invented yet - would add reportedly approx. $96 TRILLION in new debt over 10 years.
AOC admitted in an interview, however, that even if we seized every dime from the richest Americans and took every resource from every successful company in the US to use towards the Green New Deal we would not even come close to paying for the 'Green New Deal'.
Democrats are rejecting Trump's Budget that calls for cutting several Trillion dollars in spending...and politicians - not just Democrats - start squealing when their programs or pet projects take a hit even if it is justified.
Everyone wants to cut spending ... it's just no one wants THEIR spending cut.
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Dems unite against Trump's budget — but challenges coming
Democrats are coming off of a trying week following an uproar over controversial remarks from freshman Rep. Ilhan (D-Minn.) — an episode that both distracted from their ambitious legislative agenda and exposed internal fissures within the diverse caucus.
Trump’s budget has provided the party a chance to regroup, as Democrats of all stripes are bashing the president’s spending wish list and using the document as a way to unite around their shared values.
Yet drafting their 2020 budget blueprint will be much tougher for Democrats than attacking that of the president, forcing the party to make formal endorsements of their own policy priorities amid simmering internal disagreements over how best to approach health care, immigration, climate change and a host of other thorny issues.
The Democrats’ most liberal wing has also emerged as its most vocal, and those progressives have pressed hard for party leaders to embrace a long list of policy provisions that would yank the party to the left just as the pivotal 2020 election cycle gets rolling.
The left’s priority list includes a “Medicare for all” health care system, a Green New Deal to tackle climate change and the elimination of funding for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — all of which will likely alienate more moderate Democrats fighting to keep their seats in conservative-leaning districts next year."
The Democratic Party is caught between a hypocritical 'rock' and a fiscal reality' 'hard place' - they have been aggressively attacking the GOP and Trump administration for amassing significant increased debt....while promoting and advocating fiscally disastrous Leftist Socialist Policies guaranteed to immediately add nearly $100 TRILLION in new debt over 10 years...and that's only for 1 (ONE) of their proposed potential 2020 platform programs.
The Socialist Democrats' 'Medicare-For-All' program, which would strip Americans of their right to choose their own health care policies and make their own health care choices, will reportedly add $32.6 TRILLION in new debt over only 10 years...
"Medicare for all" plan touted by Bernie Sanders would cost $32.6 trillion. Sen. Bernie Sanders' "Medicare for all" plan would increase government health care spending by $32.6 trillion over 10 years, according to a study by a university-based libertarian policy center."
AOC's 'Green New Deal - which is supposed to upgrade or rebuild every building in the US / make air travel obsolete with high speed rail / end use of the internal combustion engine, oil, natural gas, and nuclear energy - 98% of the energy the US currently runs on, a plan which would put approx 30-40 million Americans out of work, and win the war on cow farts, & would rely on technology that has not even been invented yet - would add reportedly approx. $96 TRILLION in new debt over 10 years.
AOC admitted in an interview, however, that even if we seized every dime from the richest Americans and took every resource from every successful company in the US to use towards the Green New Deal we would not even come close to paying for the 'Green New Deal'.
Democrats are rejecting Trump's Budget that calls for cutting several Trillion dollars in spending...and politicians - not just Democrats - start squealing when their programs or pet projects take a hit even if it is justified.
Everyone wants to cut spending ... it's just no one wants THEIR spending cut.
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Dems unite against Trump's budget — but challenges coming