W.H.: GOP ‘Taking the Trump Approach to Debates About the Budget’; They Don’t Show Up

“The day after the election, leader McConnell, and then Speaker of the House John Boehner wrote an op-ed that appeared in the Wall Street Journal and the headline was 'Now we can get Congress moving again.' This was their commitment to try to bring about some resemblance of regular order to the legislative process. 

They’ve done that with mixed results, and I guess the future is pretty dim if you have Republicans in Congress unwilling to even talk about the budget with the White House. We do see that the Republicans are eager to leap to the defense of the world energy, but they are not really willing to have a serious, detailed conversation about our country’s budget priorities. 

It says a lot of things I think. It certainly does raise some questions about how serious Republicans are about governing the country. It also raises some questions about how confident they are in the concert arguments that they could make about the budget. Maybe they are taking the Donald Trump approach to debates about the budget. They are just not going to show up.”