White House officials and congressional leaders on Tuesday began a hard sell of a $1.37 trillion budget deal to wary lawmakers in both parties, moving quickly to lock down support before votes expected to start as early as Thursday
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By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. “We hope President Trump will reject the budget busting deal from Speaker Pelosi and Secretary Mnuchin,” said Club for Growth President David McIntosh, adding that Mnuchin should read Trump’s “Art of the Deal.”Sen. Kevin Cramer called the president and left him a message on Tuesday assuring his support for the deal to blunt conservative blowback.GOP leaders are also adamant that the increase in domestic funding is not nearly as important as the huge Pentagon boost.
“The shadow of sequestration — the inability of the government to provide ladders so middle-class people can deal with the big forces pushing them around — will no longer hover over our work on the federal budget,” Schumer said. The California Democrat noted that the agreement contains a bigger boost for domestic spending than the Pentagon — roughly $10 billion more — and touted the permanent end of the Obama-era sequester cuts. Pelosi and Schumer have bragged that they are securing spending that’s $107 billion higher than the levels when Trump took office.
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