Morning Glory: Time’s a wastin’, House GOP 

Republicans need to get a budget done while they can. The situation calls for individual members of the House to compromise and be sure to acknowledge what President Trump expects.

I don’t know what the president is insisting on or those particulars he is indifferent to. I do know that the midterms are a very short 20 months away from the beginning of voting.

Theoretically, given the very narrow majority, each member of the House has a veto over every other member of the House until at least April, so this must be a compromise bill issuing from the House, but it cannot be compromised in its aims. Everyone must vote for it. As Trump quite clearly leads the GOP, his agenda ought to lead the party’s legislative efforts in both chambers.  I don’t know what the president is insisting on or those particulars he is indifferent to. I do know that the midterms are a very short 20 months away from the beginning of voting. The economy must, by then, be well into a "boom," the border secure, dangerous and violent migrants who entered illegally either detained or ejected, and our military embarked on a renewal long, long overdue.  That means, in my view, a wall building on the border, the permanent extension — with some revisions — of the Trump tax cuts, and a vast expenditure on defense modernization. Trump ran on reorganizing the government and making it work for citizens, and authority to downsize the government far beyond existing authorities would also be welcome, as would a spending provision cutting federal dollars off from states without robust school choice programs in place beginning in 2026.  There is a second budget and reconciliation package available to the GOP in the late summer and fall, but first things first. If inflation is not tamed and economic growth poised to or already begun a big leap, Trump’s last two years in office will be plagued by more made-up impeachments and House-led and MSNBC-fed histrionics.