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Democrats Vote To Give President "Treasonous Agent Of A Foreign Power" Trump $717B Military Budget, A $100B Increase


Whether you believe Donald Trump managed to elevate himself into the Oval Office using Russian hacking efforts - which is actually the making of awful internet memes to 'sway' voters - and evading the eyes of the numerous American intelligence agencies and managed to remain in office for nearly half of his first term or not, why on earth would you vote to give an "illegitimate president" an increased military budget?

The legislation, which is called H.R 5515 or the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 was sent to President Trump's desk after a 87-10 vote, with many Democrats voting in favour of the legislation.

Democrats make plenty of noise about resisting Donald Trump, opposing the "manchurian candidate" and impeaching him from office.. and then turn around and vote in favour of gifting Trump the third largest military budget in US history, being beaten only by the 1940's WWII-era Defense Budget and $721B given to Barack Obama in 2010.


Notable Democrats, ironically those which are throwing their weight behind potential Trump collusion and impeachment such as Nancy Pelosi, Cory Booker, Joe Donnelly, Dianne Feinstein, Doug Jones, Chris Murphy, Chuck Schumer and Tim Kaine among a majority of others voted in favour of the legislation, seemingly unmoved about giving the "Russian Putin puppet" Donald Trump a monumental increase in Defense Spending, allowing him to cause chaos, continue to bomb seven countries and cause mass civilian casualties.

Now, to be fair to a select few Democrats, those being Dick Durbin, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, Ed Markey, Jeff Merkley, Elizabeth Warren and Ron Wyden, as well as Independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, voted against giving Trump an increased military budget and they should be commended.

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