Trump’s push to redo $1.3T spending bill he signed sparks GOP revolt
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/...blicans-516856
Whell’s party of Keystone Cops. You can’t make this stuff up!
Ultimately, 90 House Republicans backed the spending bill, in part because they were promised cover by the White House.
But Trump’s 180-degree reversal on that deal left the Republican lawmakers who backed the omnibus feeling spurned. Trump further infuriated members of his own party after he threatened to veto the bill and accused GOP leaders of choosing to “waste money” in the bill.
Those same Republican leaders have sharply disputed Trump’s claim that there was no close scrutiny of spending. “When you put together a $1.3 trillion bill, you look into all these accounts,” Frelinghuysen said in defense of the bill.
“You don’t throw your friends under the bus who did exactly what you wanted them to do,” Cole said, calling it a “hare-brained scheme.”