Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) declared his fealty to Trump throughout an interview Wednesday on Newsmax in regards to the price range reconciliation invoice just lately adopted by the GOP-led Senate that will disguise $4 trillion in deficits utilizing accounting gimmicks.
Many Home Republicans hate the invoice, which Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) advised HuffPost was “more of the same swamp stuff that we’ve been dealing with for years.”
For the reason that GOP solely has a seven-vote majority, too many defections by debt-hawk conservatives put the invoice susceptible to not passing and, thus, hurting Trump’s plan to increase tax cuts to the rich.
In fact, Comer, who led a long-fruitless investigation into former President Joe Biden’s alleged felony actions, helps the reconciliation invoice’s passage, and he didn’t perceive why his fellow Republican members of Congress have been being so choosy about components of the invoice and “not seeing the forest for the trees.”
“It’s very frustrating that we have several Republicans, several of my good friends and colleagues, who continue to raise objections to things that really don’t amount to a whole lot,” he mentioned on Newsmax. “At the end of the day, this legislation just allows us to move forward and try to get one big, beautiful bill that President [Donald] Trump was talking about.”
The Home GOP’s model of the invoice doesn’t increase the deficit by as a lot because the Senate’s, however it’s nonetheless within the trillions.
Comer mentioned he was annoyed that his colleagues are “tripping over a procedural bill” earlier than expressing what was actually on his thoughts.
“I can only imagine how President Trump feels,” he lamented, earlier than stressing that the stick-in-the-muds not voting for the invoice have good intentions, however they should give attention to what’s actually vital: Giving Trump what he desires, when he desires.
“Hopefully, we’ll get the job done today, but it’s a lot of the same guys. And again, I can’t say enough good things about these people,” Comer mentioned. “They want to cut spending, they want to balance the budget, and, in all reality, the Senate is not serious about cutting anything.
“But what we’ve got to do is what President Trump wants — to be able to pass this budget reconciliation bill — because we’ve got a lot of challenges in our country.”
Right here’s a clip of the alternate:
Treating Trump as if he’s a king and never an elected official is nothing new for Republicans ― Vice President JD Vance did it in Greenland final month when he justified his fearless chief’s effort to manage the island by declaring, “We can’t just ignore the president’s desires.”
Nonetheless, Comer’s suggestion that “what we’ve got to do is what President Trump wants” struck many individuals on social media as only a tad authoritarian.
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