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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 3776062" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>You obviously didn't see what went down.  The Dems were against everything Trump did and were voting party line on everything.  A small coalition of Republicans were determined to get all spending down because of concerns about the ever growing debt.  Between them and the Democrats the Republican leadership didn't have the votes necessary to make a majority.  The dissenting Republicans refused to yield.  So Trump made an offer to Democrats because he dearly wanted more defense spending.  Democrats went along after generous spending concessions.  That's how the bill was passed and we ended up with a massive spending bill comparable to Obama era spending.</p></blockquote><p></p>