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What planet are you posting this from? Did you miss the fact that Democrats in Congress proudly and incessantly proclaim their refusal to work with or even agree with Trump on anything and everything?

Were you born under a rock during the Trump administration, or are you just completely new to American politics? Did you miss this fact that this type of conflict happens during every administration?

When Obama was first elected, in 2010, the Republicans literally said "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president."

Then they took the no compromise pledge and said this about Obama's policies: “We’re going to do everything — and I mean everything we can do — to kill it, stop it, slow it down, whatever we can.”

Are you seriously complaining that the opposition was mean to Trump when this happens to every single president?

Did you skip high school civics? A "majority" in the Senate means little -- it takes a supermajority to pass funding bills, in order to overcome the filibuster.

You must be the one who skipped high school civics when you don't realize it is the role of the president and majority leaders to NEGOTIATE a deal and get those 60 votes. The only time there was a supermajority in the last 60 years was for 2 months in 2008 - do you really think the government couldn't pass anything for the other 59 years?

It's particularly embarrassing for you when just last year Chuck Schumer led a filibuster to shut down the government for the longest period in history, as he demanded $1.7 trillion in new spending. That's "trillion" with a "T".

It's particularly embarsssing for you to not know the difference between spending and new spending, and worse that you are mixing up different events and different years.

First, it was not "new" spending, but included existing spending and half of it was for Republican supported spending military defense. Schumer's 1.7 trillion spending bill was a BIPARTISAN bill that had Republican support and included 860 billion dollars in military funding.

Second, Schumer's 1.7 trillion omnibus bill was 4 years ago in 2022, not last year (2025). The longest filibuster by Cory Booker in 2025 had nothing to do with any Schumer spending bills.

Are you going senile like Biden and Trump and mixing up completely different events from different years?

The only major spending increase Trump requested first term were those to restore military spending from the levels that Obama had cut from it -- over his two terms, Obama cut military spending from 4.9% to 3.4% of GDP.

Nah. Trump kept military spending in the 3ish% GDP range during his first term.

Stop with the nonsense. For fifty years, every budget battle has been the same: Democrats demand more spending, Republicans less.

Stop with the nonsense. Republicans love increasing spending too, just not as much as Democrats do. Democrats are WORSE, but Republicans are still BAD..

The GOP loves to increase spending on military spending, corporate subsidies, corn-ethanol subsidies to produce field corn that Americans don't even eats and gets exported as animal feed or inefficiently turned into ethanol, and pork bills to fund their own districts.

Remember that Bridge to Nowhere in Alaska? Or Republican legislators voting to keep tank factories open (in Ohio?) and forcing the US army to buy more tanks when the army told them they didnt need any more tanks?

And the fact that Democrat presidents like Obama and Clinton increased the deficits at lower rates than Trump should be proof enough (assuming you still think that RINO is Republican).

By the way, we actually had a balanced budget under Bill Clinton when he worked with Republicans in Congress to both RAISE TAXES and CUT SPENDING.

If anything, this might show that Congress should be controlled by Republicans and the Executive should be controlled by Democrats to get the lowest increases in deficits.