President Trump claimed throughout an interview on Saturday that some Democrats in Congress “wished to vote” for his “big, beautiful bill,” which was signed into regulation final week.
“And bear in mind this, the Democrats wished to vote for it, most of them, a lot of them, as a result of it is all good things,” the president mentioned throughout his look on Fox Information’s “My View with Lara Trump.”
Democrats in each chambers have been critical of the reconciliation bundle, consistently pointing to cuts to Medicaid and meals help applications. The huge bundle additionally consists of funds to rent extra border patrol brokers and customs officers, funding for border wall building, extends Trump’s 2017 tax cuts and can supercharge fossil gasoline manufacturing.
No Democrat voted for the spending bundle in both chamber. The Home ultimately handed the invoice in a 218-214 vote, with two GOP members, Reps. Thomas Massie (Ky.) and Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.), voting towards it.
“We did not have one democrat vote as a result of they mentioned, ‘do not vote.’ And the one factor they do properly is that they keep collectively. You are studying tales now, however a variety of them wished to vote for it, however they could not. They could not do it,” Trump instructed host Lara Trump, who’s his daughter-in-law. She is married to Trump’s son Eric Trump.
Later within the interview, the president added of Democrats, “It’s fairly unbelievable. And so they stick collectively. I like that.”
Trump hammered Democrats for not supporting the “massive, lovely invoice” throughout his rally in Des Moines, Iowa, final week.
“However the entire issues that we’ve given, and so they wouldn’t vote. Solely as a result of they hate Trump. However I hate them, too. You recognize that? I actually do, I hate them. I can not stand them, as a result of I actually imagine they hate our nation, you need to know the reality,” Trump told the group.