Americans Didn’t Elect Trump or GOP Majority to ‘Fill the Swamp’ with Omnibus Spending Bill, Ingraham Says
Mark Meadows, Raja Krishnamoorthi joined Fox News host just after congressional leadership released 2,232-page, $1.3T bill
by Kathryn Blackhurst
LifeZette.com
22 Mar 2018
President Donald Trump should “challenge the GOP leadership” in Congress to rethink its $1.3 trillion “business-as-usual spend-o-rama” omnibus spending bill, Fox News host Laura Ingraham said on “The Ingraham Angle” Wednesday night.
“It’s a business-as-usual spend-o-rama at a time when voters expected just the opposite from a president who campaigned against the corruptocrats in D.C.,” Ingraham said. “Now if I were advising the president, I would tell him, ‘Take this as an opportunity tonight to challenge the GOP leadership.’”
Referring to the 2016 elections, Ingraham added that “the American people did not elect Trump or the GOP Congress to fill the swamp. We elected them to drain it.”
House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) (both shown above) joined Ingraham to discuss the massive 2,232-page measure that GOP leaders dumped on them 52 hours ahead of a looming government shutdown deadline.
Ingraham pointed to a tall stack of paper, saying that “no one’s reading the bill.” Neither Meadows nor Krishnamoorthi had time to read the massive bill in its entirety prior to the interview.
Trump reportedly wavered late Wednesday in his support for the bill, calling Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to the White House for a meeting Wednesday. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders later released a statement explaining Trump’s reservations had been satisfied.
“They make you agree to blow your promises and your principles by putting a gun to your head,” Ingraham said of the GOP leadership. “But the president is buying a pig in a poke here. He won on calling out the establishment on naming names — yes, even when it made things uncomfortable.”
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