It doesn't force Congress to do anything, only requests that they do. They have 45 days to either agree with his request, or do nothing.
BUT:
The losing situation was that the the Republicans and their cohorts in crime, the Democrats, pushed the Omnibus spending bill, with the Covid rider, to the statutory deadline, after having had MONTHS to pass a bill. This practically blackmailed President Trump into signing it. For that matter, they only gave their own members two hours to read nearly 6,000 pages. By doing this, it guarantees a lack of transparency, since their is little time to even know what's in the bill, which is all by design.
This is how both parties in Congress routinely blackmail all Presidents into choosing between shitty options when presenting them with rotten bills to sign.
President Trump made the best of the crappy options available to him. It's not an ideal outcome, but put the blame where it belongs - on Congress and Mnuchin for putting this piece of shit together, and waiting until the last minute to shove it through.
President Trump is not a dictator, and has to function within the law and the options that it provides him.
Cut the President some slack. Put the blame on Congress. Both parties engineered this piece of crap from the ground up, and played political games with it's timing.
They deserve all of the contempt and wrath the American public can muster.....
It doesn't force Congress to do anything, only requests that they do. They have 45 days to either agree with his request, or do nothing.
BUT:
The losing situation was that the the Republicans and their cohorts in crime, the Democrats, pushed the Omnibus spending bill, with the Covid rider, to the statutory deadline, after having had MONTHS to pass a bill. This practically blackmailed President Trump into signing it. For that matter, they only gave their own members two hours to read nearly 6,000 pages. By doing this, it guarantees a lack of transparency, since their is little time to even know what's in the bill, which is all by design.
This is how both parties in Congress routinely blackmail all Presidents into choosing between shitty options when presenting them with rotten bills to sign.
President Trump made the best of the crappy options available to him. It's not an ideal outcome, but put the blame where it belongs - on Congress and Mnuchin for putting this piece of shit together, and waiting until the last minute to shove it through.
President Trump is not a dictator, and has to function within the law and the options that it provides him.
Cut the President some slack. Put the blame on Congress. Both parties engineered this piece of crap from the ground up, and played political games with it's timing.
They deserve all of the contempt and wrath the American public can muster.....
I fully agree with you, I think the GOP is fucking Trump, this is clear by now, just wanted to share this bit of news.
The GOP and the Democrats BOTH dragged their feet on purpose, for political purposes in order to shove this monstrosity through.
Mnuchin has some to answer for here, as well.