Report: Trump Convinced To Sign Bad Budget Bill By Priebus, Boehner

Weeks ago, former House Speaker John Boehner advised President Donald Trump to sign the $1 trillion omnibus spending bill, according to a Monday report from Axios’s Jonathan Swan.

Trump is said to have considered vetoing the bill: “[Trump’s] mood was much, much worse” than what was displayed publicly, reports Swan.

White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus is reported to have facilitated a private conversation between Trump and Boehner, in an attempt to to convince the president to sign the bill.

Avoiding a “government shutdown” was Boehner’s primary argument to Trump in favor of signing the bill, according to Swan’s source(s).

Boehner also told Trump that increases in military spending without commensurate increases in non-military spending to appease leftist politicians amounted to a good deal.

Swan concludes that Trump “hated the spending bill so much,” despite his eventual singing of it following commiseration with Priebus and Boehner.

Following the omnibus spending bill’s passage, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) praised it as a “win for conservatives.”

H/T Jonathan Swan at Axios.

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