The 78 year old in-Coming President isn’t about process or details in legislation….
Has no use for it….
Only wants what HE wants delivered….
THAT probably isn’t gonna completely happen….
Senate Republicans wanted two bills sewperating border funding and tax legislation…
Trump then said he wanted one bill…
But one would imagine that the person whispering in his ear for one bill isn’t around right now….
Donald Trump REALLY IS NOT a true politiain.
He’s just a circus entertainer….
Who happens to be a convicted criminal….
And IS up for a second term as President of the United States of America…
Congressional GOPer’s ARE on their own with a guy who thinks he owns them…
“Whether it’s one bill or two bills, it’s going to get done one way or the other,” he said. “The end result is the same.”
Behind closed doors, Trump told Republicans that he wanted “one big, beautiful bill,” but made it clear he was open to whatever strategy can pass, according to one GOP senator in the meeting.
It’s the latest sign that Trump is reluctant to wade into picayune legislative disputes, even when they threaten to derail his governing agenda.
House and Senate Republicans are pushing competing strategies for passing the suite of domestic policy priorities. Both use the budget reconciliation procedure to sidestep a likely Democratic filibuster, but they differ on exactly how: Speaker Mike Johnson has pushed for one sweeping bill, while Senate Majority Leader John Thune has backed separating them into two bills.
For their part, Senate Republicans told Trump that “a two-bill strategy is very much alive over here,” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), the No. 4 GOP leader, told reporters after the meeting.
Thune at one point asked Trump if he would consider two bills if the one-bill strategy gets bogged down, according to a person familiar with the exchange, who was granted anonymity to describe a private meeting.
After the meeting, Thune refused to commit to the House’s preferred approach and called it an “ongoing conversation.”
“Obviously we want to give the House as much space as possible,” he told reporters. “They believe they can move and execute on getting a bill across the finish line fairly quickly. But we are prepared to move here, as well.”
Coming to a quick decision is crucial because both chambers must agree on a strategy and embed it in a budget measure before they move on to actually passing the policies in question….
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But in sum, senators’ accounts of the meeting — the first Senate Republicans had with Trump since officially taking back the majority — all confirmed that the president-elect did not do what they had hoped going in: make a play call after days of leaving the door open to the competing approaches.
“I think it’s really important for him to be engaged early in the process,” Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) told reporters ahead of the meeting. “I think he’ll actually provide some stability, and even if pivots are made along the way, he’s pretty good at bringing people along.”…
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