Congressional Republicans proved they cannot do much, if anything, in the Obamacare repeal. Obamacare is killing jobs, forcing people to accept part time work, raising health insurance premiums to awful levels, introducing $6000 deductibles which makes the insurance worthless. And Republicans had been promising Obamacare repeal for years. But they still could not come up the the votes to actually do it. Too many RINOs, to many extreme right wingers who do not understand "compromise", and too many just plain right wing kooks.
So, the country needs emergency funds to deal with Harvey and Irma, and we need to raise the national debt limit so we can borrow to roll the existing debt over. Schumer and Pelosi only asked to tie the two bills into one, and limit the debt ceiling relief to a mere 90 days. This gives them an opportunity to use the debt ceiling as a hammer to get something they want all over again in just 90 days. PITA from Trump's viewpoint, but doable. So Trump, figuring he cannot rely on congressional GOPers, said "Deal", and he signed the bill into law yesterday. Not too shabby.
The republican media has been bad mouthing Trump over this deal for the last couple of days. I haven't heard Ryan or McConnell bellyaching about it, at least not in public, I'm pretty sure neither of 'em are happy, but done is done, and they don't want to get into a public feud with Trump. They fear they might loose.
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