Trump's first 100 days

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Republican senators, boiling mad over President Trump's intervention in G.O.P. primaries that has cost one incumbent his seat and left another hanging by a thread, say Mr. Trump has chosen personal revenge over governing.

Six months out from a midterm election in which their majority is at stake, Senate Republicans face a difficult legislative path with a rising number of restless lame-duck senators and a growing sense that the president cares much less about accomplishments that could boost them in November than about protecting himself and settling his political scores.

Or maybe they could be team players and do what he and the majority of American's want them to do.


Trump's approval rating with Americans is 39%, so their senators' opposition to Trump agenda is what America wants
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Osodecentx said:

BearFan33 said:

Osodecentx said:

Republican senators, boiling mad over President Trump's intervention in G.O.P. primaries that has cost one incumbent his seat and left another hanging by a thread, say Mr. Trump has chosen personal revenge over governing.

Six months out from a midterm election in which their majority is at stake, Senate Republicans face a difficult legislative path with a rising number of restless lame-duck senators and a growing sense that the president cares much less about accomplishments that could boost them in November than about protecting himself and settling his political scores.

Or maybe they could be team players and do what he and the majority of American's want them to do.


Trump's approval rating with Americans is 39%, so their senators' opposition to Trump agenda is what America wants

Its funny when Biden or Obama's approval rating was lower, the dems supported their executive.
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Bill is late to the party. He's asking the right question but they applied when we thought it would be funded by "friends"

It was completely funded by friends, or at least going to be until an activist judge and a butt hurt bureaucracy got involved. Once stopped (cause the judge said it needed congress' approval), congress put together a 1 billion dollar boondoggle to enrich themselves for giving their approval. Now the needed ballroom will probably never be completed.
That's one way to spin it. Congress just needs to provide the statutory approval for the project. Funding source didn't matter.
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ATL Bear said:

BearFan33 said:

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Bill is late to the party. He's asking the right question but they applied when we thought it would be funded by "friends"

It was completely funded by friends, or at least going to be until an activist judge and a butt hurt bureaucracy got involved. Once stopped (cause the judge said it needed congress' approval), congress put together a 1 billion dollar boondoggle to enrich themselves for giving their approval. Now the needed ballroom will probably never be completed.

That's one way to spin it. Congress just needs to provide the statutory approval for the project. Funding source didn't matter.

https://www.factcheck.org/2026/05/whos-paying-for-the-white-house-ballroom/

Congress wants their cut.
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BearFan33 said:

ATL Bear said:

BearFan33 said:

Mitch Blood Green said:

boognish_bear said:




Bill is late to the party. He's asking the right question but they applied when we thought it would be funded by "friends"

It was completely funded by friends, or at least going to be until an activist judge and a butt hurt bureaucracy got involved. Once stopped (cause the judge said it needed congress' approval), congress put together a 1 billion dollar boondoggle to enrich themselves for giving their approval. Now the needed ballroom will probably never be completed.

That's one way to spin it. Congress just needs to provide the statutory approval for the project. Funding source didn't matter.

https://www.factcheck.org/2026/05/whos-paying-for-the-white-house-ballroom/

Congress wants their cut.
That's Congress's choice, not what the ruling or requirement is. If the Biden admin had wanted the side of the Whitehouse to have a monument to the LGBT movement and painted in the colors of the pride flag paid for by private donations, I don't think many here would complain about Congressional approval of the project being required. The Whitehouse isn't a private villa at Mar-A-Lago you renovate however you want, regardless of necessity or cost.
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BearFan33 said:

ATL Bear said:

BearFan33 said:

Mitch Blood Green said:

boognish_bear said:




Bill is late to the party. He's asking the right question but they applied when we thought it would be funded by "friends"

It was completely funded by friends, or at least going to be until an activist judge and a butt hurt bureaucracy got involved. Once stopped (cause the judge said it needed congress' approval), congress put together a 1 billion dollar boondoggle to enrich themselves for giving their approval. Now the needed ballroom will probably never be completed.

That's one way to spin it. Congress just needs to provide the statutory approval for the project. Funding source didn't matter.

https://www.factcheck.org/2026/05/whos-paying-for-the-white-house-ballroom/

Congress wants their cut.

So the ballroom is privately funded 100%. What Republicans in Congress asked for were additional improvements to keep Congress safe. In a nutshell, making the 6th floor (underground), the Secret Service level?
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Building myths on Politico reports now?



On cue, the janitor of Trumplandia arrives.

Out of curiosity, when did you start letting The View post here for you?

Sick burn…

Admittedly not on the level as your suggestion that my MBA and accounting career only rate a janitor role ...


When I was at Deloitte, I'd always say don't trust them MBAs. How did I know? I was one of them. I had insider information.
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BearFan33 said:

Osodecentx said:

BearFan33 said:

Osodecentx said:

Republican senators, boiling mad over President Trump's intervention in G.O.P. primaries that has cost one incumbent his seat and left another hanging by a thread, say Mr. Trump has chosen personal revenge over governing.

Six months out from a midterm election in which their majority is at stake, Senate Republicans face a difficult legislative path with a rising number of restless lame-duck senators and a growing sense that the president cares much less about accomplishments that could boost them in November than about protecting himself and settling his political scores.

Or maybe they could be team players and do what he and the majority of American's want them to do.


Trump's approval rating with Americans is 39%, so their senators' opposition to Trump agenda is what America wants

Its funny when Biden or Obama's approval rating was lower, the dems supported their executive.

Well, by your logic, when Democrat senators votied for the Obama-Biden agenda they were voting for what Americans wanted.
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BearFan33 said:

Mitch Blood Green said:

boognish_bear said:




Bill is late to the party. He's asking the right question but they applied when we thought it would be funded by "friends"

It was completely funded by friends, or at least going to be until an activist judge and a butt hurt bureaucracy got involved. Once stopped (cause the judge said it needed congress' approval), congress put together a 1 billion dollar boondoggle to enrich themselves for giving their approval. Now the needed ballroom will probably never be completed.


Is Bill wrong?

The white house will be restored. It won't get done by Trump and it won't look like it was designed to host the "Pimp and Hoes" ball.
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Osodecentx said:

Republican senators, boiling mad over President Trump's intervention in G.O.P. primaries that has cost one incumbent his seat and left another hanging by a thread, say Mr. Trump has chosen personal revenge over governing.

Six months out from a midterm election in which their majority is at stake, Senate Republicans face a difficult legislative path with a rising number of restless lame-duck senators and a growing sense that the president cares much less about accomplishments that could boost them in November than about protecting himself and settling his political scores.

Interesting coming from the body that has been instrumental in slow walking Republican led initiatives like the SAVE act.
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Yeah, you zealots are really showing your extreme hypocrisy yet again. Had Biden made his personal attorney the AG, then sued the government, then had his personal attorney setup a fund for billions to pay violent criminals, then reached a "deal" that made him, his son, and all businesses, immune from IRS audits forever.... the "whaaaaahhhhh" would be staggering.

But since it's your tribe you just look the other way.
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EatMoreSalmon said:

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Republican senators, boiling mad over President Trump's intervention in G.O.P. primaries that has cost one incumbent his seat and left another hanging by a thread, say Mr. Trump has chosen personal revenge over governing.

Six months out from a midterm election in which their majority is at stake, Senate Republicans face a difficult legislative path with a rising number of restless lame-duck senators and a growing sense that the president cares much less about accomplishments that could boost them in November than about protecting himself and settling his political scores.

Interesting coming from the body that has been instrumental in slow walking Republican led initiatives like the SAVE act.

I'm loving the separation of powers

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“The more you open yourself up to the possibility that good things will happen the higher probability is that good things will in fact happen.”
— Jordan Peterson
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“The more you open yourself up to the possibility that good things will happen the higher probability is that good things will in fact happen.”
— Jordan Peterson
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Porteroso said:

Yeah, you zealots are really showing your extreme hypocrisy yet again. Had Biden made his personal attorney the AG, then sued the government, then had his personal attorney setup a fund for billions to pay violent criminals, then reached a "deal" that made him, his son, and all businesses, immune from IRS audits forever.... the "whaaaaahhhhh" would be staggering.

But since it's your tribe you just look the other way.

I'm not pleased at all about the "free to cheat" status the IRS settlement give the Trump Org. Terrible precedent. I am reminded though of why was there a settlement in the first place. If the IRS had behaved itself, Trumps suit would have had no grounds. It seems the Trumps wanted protection against future persecution by the IRS. I can't imagine why. This unfortunate situation is a side effect of weaponization of government agencies.
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Osodecentx said:

EatMoreSalmon said:

Osodecentx said:

Republican senators, boiling mad over President Trump's intervention in G.O.P. primaries that has cost one incumbent his seat and left another hanging by a thread, say Mr. Trump has chosen personal revenge over governing.

Six months out from a midterm election in which their majority is at stake, Senate Republicans face a difficult legislative path with a rising number of restless lame-duck senators and a growing sense that the president cares much less about accomplishments that could boost them in November than about protecting himself and settling his political scores.

Interesting coming from the body that has been instrumental in slow walking Republican led initiatives like the SAVE act.

I'm loving the separation of powers




For the SAVE act?
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BearFan33 said:

Porteroso said:

Yeah, you zealots are really showing your extreme hypocrisy yet again. Had Biden made his personal attorney the AG, then sued the government, then had his personal attorney setup a fund for billions to pay violent criminals, then reached a "deal" that made him, his son, and all businesses, immune from IRS audits forever.... the "whaaaaahhhhh" would be staggering.

But since it's your tribe you just look the other way.

I'm not pleased at all about the "free to cheat" status the IRS settlement give the Trump Org. Terrible precedent. I am reminded though of why was there a settlement in the first place. If the IRS had behaved itself, Trumps suit would have had no grounds. It seems the Trumps wanted protection against future persecution by the IRS. I can't imagine why. This unfortunate situation is a side effect of weaponization of government agencies.


This
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EatMoreSalmon said:

Osodecentx said:

EatMoreSalmon said:

Osodecentx said:

Republican senators, boiling mad over President Trump's intervention in G.O.P. primaries that has cost one incumbent his seat and left another hanging by a thread, say Mr. Trump has chosen personal revenge over governing.

Six months out from a midterm election in which their majority is at stake, Senate Republicans face a difficult legislative path with a rising number of restless lame-duck senators and a growing sense that the president cares much less about accomplishments that could boost them in November than about protecting himself and settling his political scores.

Interesting coming from the body that has been instrumental in slow walking Republican led initiatives like the SAVE act.

I'm loving the separation of powers




For the SAVE act?


Especially for the slush fund for The Proud Boys

Trump Collides With GOP Senators Over $1.8 Billion 'Anti-Weaponization' Fund
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis, who is retiring after the president regularly criticized him, called it a 'payout pot for punks'
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Mitch Blood Green said:

Oldbear83 said:

ATL Bear said:

Oldbear83 said:

ATL Bear said:

Oldbear83 said:

Building myths on Politico reports now?



On cue, the janitor of Trumplandia arrives.

Out of curiosity, when did you start letting The View post here for you?

Sick burn…

Admittedly not on the level as your suggestion that my MBA and accounting career only rate a janitor role ...


When I was at Deloitte, I'd always say don't trust them MBAs. How did I know? I was one of them. I had insider information.

I went back for my MBA after working for 13 years. There were a few of us who sat together in the classes, having a good chuckle at some of the things professors sold as the coming trend in Management, Logistics and Supply.

The kiddos who went for their MBA right after getting their Bachelors' would ask us what was so funny. We'd just tell them 'wait and see'. A lot of things sold as new and groundbreaking in class had been tried and failed by real businesses years before.

That's not to say we didn't learn some useful tools, but a grain of salt is an important part of any scholarly diet.
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"I'll take a different question"... gonna have to file this one away to try out with the wife when needed

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House Republicans on Thursday abruptly canceled a vote on a resolution directing President Trump to withdraw U.S. forces from Iran or win approval from Congress to continue the war, after it became clear they lacked the votes to defeat the measure.
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“The more you open yourself up to the possibility that good things will happen the higher probability is that good things will in fact happen.”
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That's a poll, not actual vote counts at this point in time.

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“The more you open yourself up to the possibility that good things will happen the higher probability is that good things will in fact happen.”
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I feel bad for Senator Cornyn. Good guy, helped me when I was butting heads with the CIA trying to get some classified documents unclassifed

Took me several years to get it done



“The more you open yourself up to the possibility that good things will happen the higher probability is that good things will in fact happen.”
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EatMoreSalmon said:

Osodecentx said:

Republican senators, boiling mad over President Trump's intervention in G.O.P. primaries that has cost one incumbent his seat and left another hanging by a thread, say Mr. Trump has chosen personal revenge over governing.

Six months out from a midterm election in which their majority is at stake, Senate Republicans face a difficult legislative path with a rising number of restless lame-duck senators and a growing sense that the president cares much less about accomplishments that could boost them in November than about protecting himself and settling his political scores.

Interesting coming from the body that has been instrumental in slow walking Republican led initiatives like the SAVE act.



But almost nothing Trump has done since returning to office has aroused more opposition among Senate Republicans than the Justice Department's move to set up a fund that would dole out taxpayer money to people who claim to be victims of the federal government, with few additional details.
Thune acknowledged Thursday that Trump's role in Cornyn's and Cassidy's races inflamed the reaction to the fund.
"I think it's hard to divorce anything that happens here from what's happening in the political atmosphere around us," he said. "There's a political component to everything we do around here. So yeah, you can't disconnect those things."
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Osodecentx said:

EatMoreSalmon said:

Osodecentx said:

Republican senators, boiling mad over President Trump's intervention in G.O.P. primaries that has cost one incumbent his seat and left another hanging by a thread, say Mr. Trump has chosen personal revenge over governing.

Six months out from a midterm election in which their majority is at stake, Senate Republicans face a difficult legislative path with a rising number of restless lame-duck senators and a growing sense that the president cares much less about accomplishments that could boost them in November than about protecting himself and settling his political scores.

Interesting coming from the body that has been instrumental in slow walking Republican led initiatives like the SAVE act.



But almost nothing Trump has done since returning to office has aroused more opposition among Senate Republicans than the Justice Department's move to set up a fund that would dole out taxpayer money to people who claim to be victims of the federal government, with few additional details.
Thune acknowledged Thursday that Trump's role in Cornyn's and Cassidy's races inflamed the reaction to the fund.
"I think it's hard to divorce anything that happens here from what's happening in the political atmosphere around us," he said. "There's a political component to everything we do around here. So yeah, you can't disconnect those things."

That is the problem.
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EatMoreSalmon said:

Osodecentx said:

EatMoreSalmon said:

Osodecentx said:

Republican senators, boiling mad over President Trump's intervention in G.O.P. primaries that has cost one incumbent his seat and left another hanging by a thread, say Mr. Trump has chosen personal revenge over governing.

Six months out from a midterm election in which their majority is at stake, Senate Republicans face a difficult legislative path with a rising number of restless lame-duck senators and a growing sense that the president cares much less about accomplishments that could boost them in November than about protecting himself and settling his political scores.

Interesting coming from the body that has been instrumental in slow walking Republican led initiatives like the SAVE act.



But almost nothing Trump has done since returning to office has aroused more opposition among Senate Republicans than the Justice Department's move to set up a fund that would dole out taxpayer money to people who claim to be victims of the federal government, with few additional details.
Thune acknowledged Thursday that Trump's role in Cornyn's and Cassidy's races inflamed the reaction to the fund.
"I think it's hard to divorce anything that happens here from what's happening in the political atmosphere around us," he said. "There's a political component to everything we do around here. So yeah, you can't disconnect those things."

That is the problem.


Though Republicans still have a good shot at winning in deep-red Texas, many GOP strategists worry that Paxton is a flawed candidate. He has been accused by his top lieutenants of abusing his office (he has denied wrongdoing), impeached by his own party (he was later acquitted), charged with securities fraud (he resolved the charges with a pretrial deal) and is currently in the middle of a divorce initiated by his wife "on biblical grounds."
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Osodecentx said:

EatMoreSalmon said:

Osodecentx said:

EatMoreSalmon said:

Osodecentx said:

Republican senators, boiling mad over President Trump's intervention in G.O.P. primaries that has cost one incumbent his seat and left another hanging by a thread, say Mr. Trump has chosen personal revenge over governing.

Six months out from a midterm election in which their majority is at stake, Senate Republicans face a difficult legislative path with a rising number of restless lame-duck senators and a growing sense that the president cares much less about accomplishments that could boost them in November than about protecting himself and settling his political scores.

Interesting coming from the body that has been instrumental in slow walking Republican led initiatives like the SAVE act.



But almost nothing Trump has done since returning to office has aroused more opposition among Senate Republicans than the Justice Department's move to set up a fund that would dole out taxpayer money to people who claim to be victims of the federal government, with few additional details.
Thune acknowledged Thursday that Trump's role in Cornyn's and Cassidy's races inflamed the reaction to the fund.
"I think it's hard to divorce anything that happens here from what's happening in the political atmosphere around us," he said. "There's a political component to everything we do around here. So yeah, you can't disconnect those things."

That is the problem.


Though Republicans still have a good shot at winning in deep-red Texas, many GOP strategists worry that Paxton is a flawed candidate. He has been accused by his top lieutenants of abusing his office (he has denied wrongdoing), impeached by his own party (he was later acquitted), charged with securities fraud (he resolved the charges with a pretrial deal) and is currently in the middle of a divorce initiated by his wife "on biblical grounds."

Here's what I texted my cousin, who asked me about Cornyn vs Paxton:

"Polling shows no statistically significant difference between Cornyn & Paxton in the general.

Dems are going to beat up Paxton on ethics.
Dems are going to beat up Cornyn on age.
Paxton can defend his ethics easier than Cornyn can defend his age."
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BearFan33 said:

Porteroso said:

Yeah, you zealots are really showing your extreme hypocrisy yet again. Had Biden made his personal attorney the AG, then sued the government, then had his personal attorney setup a fund for billions to pay violent criminals, then reached a "deal" that made him, his son, and all businesses, immune from IRS audits forever.... the "whaaaaahhhhh" would be staggering.

But since it's your tribe you just look the other way.

I'm not pleased at all about the "free to cheat" status the IRS settlement give the Trump Org. Terrible precedent. I am reminded though of why was there a settlement in the first place. If the IRS had behaved itself, Trumps suit would have had no grounds. It seems the Trumps wanted protection against future persecution by the IRS. I can't imagine why. This unfortunate situation is a side effect of weaponization of government agencies.


Who was in charge of the IRS when it happened? Would there had been a leak had Trump revealed his returns like other presidents did?

Trump only creates problems and blaming others for it.
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