The Senate confirmed a slew of judicial nominees and passed a budget deal this week, drawing praise from pro-lifers.
“We’d heard that our Democratic colleagues across the Capitol were clamoring to take us backwards on the issue of life, perhaps even targeting the Hyde amendment or forcing more taxpayer dollars back toward Planned Parenthood,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) stated on the Senate Floor on Thursday.
However, the White House scored a “win” on the life issue and on keeping funding for border security, McConnell said.
In addition to confirming over a dozen judicial nominees and a new United Nations Ambassador Kelly Craft, the Senate also passed the Bipartisan Budget Act, sending the legislation to the President’s desk. The budget deal to raise the debt ceiling was the fruit of negotiations between President Trump and congressional leaders.
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Appointment of Federal Judges, since terms are basically lifetime, is far more consequential than most elections.
Hurray! “The Senate confirmed a slew of judicial nominees and passed a budget deal this week, drawing praise from pro-lifers.” Many thanks to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (-KY), and to President Trump for nominating candidates that support our Constitution. Thanks also to the President for enduring the harassment and lawsuits of Planned Parenthood, etc. in order to change funding, and rules and regulations that are anti-life both in the U.S. and United Nations.
The judicial appointments are nice, but the budget deal is a disaster. USFedGov is essentially insolvent. To cover the new debt, trillion$ will be borrowed from, and created out of thin air by, the Federal Reserve. The 1% continue to steal from the poor, with intellectual cover provided by Ivy-League economists. And of course, not a peep from the bishops about this obscene injustice. Trump — the biggest spender in US history!
Oops, Obama was biggest spender
The Republican Party used to stand for fiscal sanity. This budget bill is worse than any previously passed by the Democrats. Our children and grandchildren will have to pay for all of this someday.