President Trump, his budget director and chief of staff want the democrats in congress to pass his agenda concerning a spending bill before congress to prevent a government shutdown that looms Saturday April 29. Those are the same people who supported the congressional republicans stand of doing nothing to help President Obama's agenda when he first took office in 2009. And their position was the same when President Obama nominated his pick for Supreme Court Justice.
Trump and his friends are having a hard time accomplishing any meaningful legislation in his first 100 days as he promised, so now he wants his funding agenda passed that includes the Wall and the repeal and replacement of the ACA. He can not be sure of his republican votes and needs democrats to avoid a shutdown of government. All of this speaks loud and clear of the lies Trump and the republicans are living.
Despite the lies that the ACA will self destruct, the lies really tell a story that the ACA is alive, well and working. If it were not, repealing and replacement of the ACA would have been easy after seven years of empty promises. The Wall is the BIG Lie of the Trump campaign and now wants the tax payers to pay for the lie and the WALL. Like the republican's stand on the ACA, Trump can't even tell congress how he will make Mexico pay for the WALL and he has had over a year to do so. If he was serious it would be spelled out in the spending bill just how Mexico would pay for the WALL.
The democrats in congress need to stay steady and refuse to allow the tax payers to pay for the WALL and should vote against any repeal and replacement of the ACA. President Trump and the republicans made their own bed so let them sleep in it.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
