The Democratic Parfty Continues To Lead and The Republican Party Can Only Follow

The republican party and Trump had a chance to lead on extending funding for the 9/11 first responders in 2017 and 2018 when they controlled everything.  But they pushed the issue aside and thought it would go away.  But the democratic controlled U.S. House heard the first responders plea and responded with legislation that secured funding thru 2092.  The republican controlled U.S. Senate took up the bill this week and passed the measure after two republican senators delayed the vote.

The funding issue was basic to taking care of those injured in the line of duty but republican ideology finds a way to fog up common sense.  They can find a way for huge tax cuts for those who need them the least.  Republican senator Rand Paul was one of the senators to delay the bill because it increased the deficit without cutting spending to pay for it.  This is the same Paul who voted for the Trump-GOP tax cuts that will add $1.5 trillion to deficit spending and there were no offsets.  What a hypocrite.

The U.S. House also passed a two year $2.7 trillion budget-debt legislation that avoids what could have been another government shutdown at the end of September when funding runs out and ends the past republican practice of using short term continuing Resolutions that don't work and which was responsible for shutting the government down last year.  Only 65 republicans voted for the bill while 132 voted against it.  Five of the 6 republicans from Louisiana voted against the bill.  Trump supported the bill because his party in the past was not capable of passing a long term plan.  The U.S. Senate will take up the bill next week for its vote.

And now this week Trump's Justice Department announced it has opened an antitrust investigation of big technology companies and whether their platforms have hurt competition, suppressed innovation or otherwise harmed consumers.   Democratic Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has already announced if elected President she would break up big tech Corporations and other monopolies that have harmed consumers and competition.

Trump and the republican controlled Senate ae well aware of the 2020 elections and the fact they could lose control to the democratic party.  So be prepared to see the republican party adopt democratic issues the closer the country moves to the 2020 elections.  And when it happens, you will have read it here first in PolitiDose, your daily dose of political commentary.


This commentary written by Joe Lorio