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McConnell: Trump's State Dept. cuts 'probably' can't pass Senate
2017-03-01
[THEHILL] Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Tuesday that a budget that slashes State Department funding likely wouldn't clear the Senate.

Asked if a budget that cuts the agency’s funding by roughly a third could pass the upper chamber, McConnell told news hounds "probably not."

"When we get to funding the government, obviously it will be done on a bipartisan basis," he said.
Protecting the phony-baloney jobs is always a bipartisan job...
The Wall Street Journal reported that the Trump administration’s budget would cut the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development by roughly 37 percent.

Stressing that he was speaking for himself and not the caucus, McConnell added that the "diplomatic portion of the federal budget is very important."
"I'm not in favor of cutting what we call the 150 account by that amount," he said.

The 150 account includes international affairs funding.

Trump's first budget is coming under fire from several GOP politicians.

Sen. Lindsey Graham
... the endangered South Carolina RINO...
 (R-S.C.) told NBC News that it was "dead on arrival." Meanwhile,
...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had a cup of coffee. Even instant would do...
 Sen. John Maverick McCain
... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution. As an ordinary citizen he greased the infamous hookers peeing on the Obamabed in Moscow dossier in an attempt to smear President Trump...
(R-Ariz.) has knocked it over its level of defense spending.
Posted by:Fred

#8  Always figured McConnell's a Pseudemydura umbrina.
Posted by: charger   2017-03-01 19:32  

#7  So McConnell really doesn't want to drain the swamp.

If you drain the swamp where will McConnell go?
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-03-01 19:25  

#6  The executive branch has no obligation to spend every dollar the legislative branch appropriates.
Posted by: Thrunter Thrineng9681   2017-03-01 16:24  

#5  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the Harry Reid of the Republican Party. Give a try at passing these budget cuts in the Senate; you won't know whether they will pass if you don't put it to the vote. So McConnell really doesn't want to drain the swamp. He can be replaced when he comes up again for election.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-03-01 13:48  

#4  Are we talking staffing and such or foreign aid?
Posted by: rjschwarz   2017-03-01 12:27  

#3  Lindsey Graham and John McCain were sitting next to each other at Trump's speech last night. They weren't holding hands, as far as I could tell, but they were sitting together.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-03-01 12:09  

#2  Fine, let em choose: diplomat salaries or diplomat travel and accommodation budgets. But not both.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2017-03-01 10:16  

#1  "When we get to funding the government are feeding at the trough, obviously it will be done on a bipartisan basis," he said.

Obviously.
Posted by: SteveS   2017-03-01 08:24  

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