Conservatives are blasting the five-month, fiscal 2017 spending deal written by Republicans and Democrats as nothing short of a “cave in” by the GOP despite its control of both the House, Senate and White House.
The deal, conservatives say, will make the fiscal 2018 spending process even more difficult.
The $1 trillion bill “does little more than kowtow to liberal Democrats and so-called moderate’ Republicans,” Jason Pye, policy director for the conservative FreedomWorks advocacy group, said Monday.
Republican leaders pointed to the GOP wins in the bill, including a $15 billion increase in defense spending that did not require the typical equal increase in domestic spending.
“We have boosted resources for our defense needs without corresponding increases in non-defense spending, as Democrats had insisted upon for years,” House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., touted.
The bill also includes an unprecedented $1.5 billion for border security, although none of it can be used for a wall or to increase deportations of those who have already crossed the border.
But despite those Republican gains, a GOP aide who has spoken to conservative GOP lawmakers said most view the bill “as a complete concession to Democrats and that it is more or less what we have seen in the past — that they are making the decision to pass it with Democrats rather than Republicans.”
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As examples, it does not strip out taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood, a women’s health and abortion provider. The legislation excludes language that would withhold federal funding from so-called sanctuary cities, another conservative priority.
It does not include a penny for the southern border wall that was at the center of Trump’s campaign agenda, despite a request from Trump to include the funding. The legislation also leaves in place Obama-era financial reform language the GOP has long criticized as burdensome.
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Conservatives are incensed spending deal doesn't defund Planned Parenthood or pay for border wall https://t.co/bhc31XIhyQ pic.twitter.com/yDBluCapon
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) May 2, 2017
When are these bums going to understand that “compromise” and “bipartisanship” equal “capitualtion?” After 8 years of Democrat rule, you would think the Republicans, now in control of the presidency, House and Senate, would no longer have to grovel for scraps from their Democrat masters. So why are they?
I’ve heard that we no longer have two major parties. We have a “uniparty.” There really are few differences between the two parties anymore. Despite all their campaign promises, the president and the Republican dominated congress have no intention of doing what the people want — what they promised voters they would do. Essentially, they have told the voters, “you elected us, but now we are going to do what we want. Don’t like it? Too bad. You are stuck with us for X years.” They are all but calling us “suckers” and laughing at us for being so gullible as to believe their promises and vote for them time and again.
I left the Republican Party in 2012 after the psrty, in collusion with Fox News, forced Romney down our throats. I re-registered as a Republican during the last presidential primaries only to vote for Ted Cruz. Since he lost to the TV celebrity, I changed back to an independent. Today there is no way I would register as a Republican again, no matter who is running. The party is dead to me. I will be very happy if the party goes the way of the Whigs. It deserves to.
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