Despite the cloud of being only the third president ever to be impeached, hanging over his head, President Donald J. Trump is ending the year with a wealth of accomplishments.
Indeed, as the year comes to a close, the president has rung up a string of policy victories — some with the help of the very same House Democrats that are trying to destroy his presidency.
“Despite their partisan impeachment, Trump has remained focused on how to keep our economy growing …” Vice President Pence crowed in a recent op-ed for The Detroit News, pointing to the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) a pending trade deal that is a centerpiece of the administration’s year-end agenda.
In a serendipitous twist of political timing, that traded deal could be approved in the House on the very same day as the floor vote on articles of impeachment later this week. The USMCA, a trade pact meant to replace NAFTA, has enjoyed bipartisan support and could make its way to the floor for adoption by Thursday or Friday.
While Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has indicated he won’t consider the USMCA until a Senate trial is complete, the passage in the House would give Trump a policy win in the most challenging of political environments, and pad his presidential resume, heading into 2020.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been peppered with questions about the curious side-by-side votes but said Democrats made the trade deal better in negotiations and played off the timing as the product of the usual end-of-year deadlines.
“No, it’s not a coincidence, it’s just as we get to the end of a session there have to be some decisions made,” she told reporters Tuesday.
USMCA is just one major area where Trump has seen progress in recent weeks. With the threat of a government shutdown looming, Congress also reached a tentative agreement for a budget that includes $1.3 billion for the border wall that was one of Trump’s signature campaign promises in 2016 — though funding continues to face court challenges.
On top of that, in another feather in the president’s cap, a sweeping defense bill cleared the House with several Trump priorities attached, including a new branch of the military called the U.S. Space Force and a policy giving federal employees 12 weeks of paid family leave. Trump declared “all of our priorities” made it into the package.
And to add a little sugar to the top of the president’s year-end victory cake, the trade war between the U.S. and China also appears to be easing, with Trump announcing that China has agreed to a preliminary trade deal, though details have yet to be revealed.
However, while all this is happening, the House Judiciary Committee on Friday voted to adopt two articles of impeachment against Trump, alleging abuse of power and obstruction of Congress for his efforts to convince Ukraine to launch investigations that could help his 2020 campaign. A final roll call in the full House is expected this week.
Trump is the best president ever. The reason for this action is he is trying to clean up the dirt in Washington. Pelosi and her colleagues are corrupt and they are all doing their best to get rid of trump’s so he can do what the country needs to be done.
Who died & made Pelosi the “grand Poppah? The HOUSE is ONLY one half of Congress, so technically she’s leading one quarter of the Gov’t. & since 2016 has made American lives miserable. WE the PEOPLE did Not elect her, just some Ca. morons. Seems to me that she has abused her power as Speaker &she should be sanctioned & held in contempt! There must be some way to remove her from this position.What makes her think that she has the right or the power to tell the Senate what to do? She’s certainly got a brass set.
Cloud of impeachment? What cloud? I don’t see any cloud! You see a cloud?
All I see is a bunch of dim-rats throwing shade because they can’t think of anything better to do. Trump won in ’16, and he will win again in ’20. The dims are pissed because they know they can’t beat him, and they’re just throwing the biggest hissy-fit they can, in hopes that some voters will mistake random motion for actual accomplishment. The democrat party is a dead man walking, who doesn’t yet know he’s dead.
The Dems are ignorant fools. They hate Trump so much that they can’t think straight. They have dug a hole so deep it will take years to climb out. Good.
I want the democrats to be impeached God knows they have committed many crimes and no longer work for the people!!!!!!
Trump 2020
AS usual, Democrats try to hang our President on the crimes committed by the Democrats.
He will be even be brighter when he wins in 2020❤️😋
If you are voting for trump,you are no dam patriot you anti-American hating devil worshipping snakes.but what do you expect from Satan first born anHELLigan because to you white supremacist humanoid demon there is nothing more patriotic than killing BLACK and Brown people
It’s sad to see this being done to President Trump. In my life I haven’t seen such hatred for a man who is doing so much for this country.
Quit taking those opioids and leave your dream world Lt. Dan. Run Forest run.
Ponder that this hollow partisan Impeachment vote,plainly a farcical sham is based on a thin unfounded nonsense 2nd hand leaked report of the innocent US-Ukraine Presidents’ phone call of a proven non-quid pro quo with a foreign government that the dim Dems is conspiring to oust a duly elected President Trump. How low, devious, jealous, vindictive are these obtuse liberals turned violent leftists! Their unpatriotic madness needs dire interventions & long term rehabilitation per Cong. Devin Nunes, Ca. if they’re even redeemable & urgent exorcism from malicious treacherous devilish plottings so repellent to common decency.
So now they can’t impeach him now because Pelosi above the law said so! Also she Is above the president
Shame! To impeach him about something they are exercising in our eyes she is really praying for him indeed .
Trump has been the worst president in our history.
the border wall is a disaster.
the trade war with China was instigated by Trump. For the most part, he has “surrendered”.
have not studied the USMCA, but what I have seen, it is another disaster.
he “space force” should be called the space FARCE. Hopefully, Biden will trash it.
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