Trump touted the spending deal Tuesday at a ceremony honoring the Air Force Academy Football team.
It's tempting to blame the White House staff for failing to keep the president informed about basic details, but ultimately, the responsibility lies with Trump himself to at least try reading a little.
Earlier in the current Congress, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell did change the rules to allow for a simple majority for the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch.
Congressional Republicans - motivated in great measure by fear of a politically damaging government shutdown - worked closely with minority party Democrats to produce the measure, which made only small changes to most accounts covered by the measure.
Trump could, if he wanted, refuse to sign the bill funding the government up to September, which is still being finalized in Congress.
Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh attacked the $1 trillion omnibus spending measure.
"I think it would be a good thing at this point if the iPhone was put in a safe, locked away and maybe returned in four years", Republican Senator Bob Corker, who was once on the shortlist to be Trump's vice-president, told reporters.
An initial health care bill imploded in March under opposition by conservative and moderate Republicans. Here's Republican Senator from South Carolina Lindsey Graham on CNN.
The White House and Sen.
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He said that legislation needs 60 votes in the Senate because of the filibuster and suggested that it would be necessary to elect more Republicans or "change the rules".
Mulvaney said the White House will turn next to the 2018 budget, and wouldn't balk at a government shutdown if necessary to get it passed, echoing Trump's tweet earlier in the day that the United States "needs a good shutdown".
Mulvaney used Tuesday's press briefing to fight back on the issue of who get's credit. It had passed the House on Wednesday and now heads to President Donald Trump, who is expected to sign it even though several of his key priorities are missing. Most important, this measure broke Democrats' insistence on "parity" - that is, their insistence that every $1 of military spending be matched by $1 of nondefense spending. The $1.5 billion total amount for border security, which will fund technology and fix existing fencing along the border, is half of what Mr. Trump requested.
Trump repeatedly insisted during the election campaign that Mexico would pay for the wall, a claim Mexican officials have vigorously rejected.
The 309-118 vote sends the bill to the Senate in time to act before a midnight Friday deadline to avert a government shutdown.
Trump's embrace of a government shutdown came days after he accused Senate Democrats of seeking a shutdown and obstructing majority Republicans during recent budget negotiations. The 16-day partial government shutdown in 2013 cost $24 billion, according to Moody's and Standard and Poor's. The Energy and Commerce Committee that Upton sits on has played a leading role in health care reform this year. After a recess that gave constituents the opportunity to share their views with members of the Freedom Caucus, some members of the far right rump voiced support for a compromise measure.
Opposing the measure were Republican Reps.
In this image from House Television, the final total on the vote on the Republicans health care bill is displayed at the Capitol in Washington on Thursday, May 4, 2017. "I think what you heard this morning was his sense of frustration over how he's getting mistreated by the Democrats on this bipartisan piece of legislation".
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