If you’re still scratching your head on how President Trump and 217 members of the House of Representatives could gather jubilantly about the vote to repeal Obamacare without reading the actual bill or getting non-partisan analysis from the Congressional Budget Office, keep scratching.
And then consider it’s just typical of how Trump does government.
Just look at what he’s doing to HBCUs, and maybe all programs based on race, ethnicity, or gender.
In a normally pro-forma media statement on his signing of a $1.1 trillion omnibus government spending [bill] last Friday, the president sent anyone associated with HBCUs into a major head-shaking jag when Trump questioned the constitutionality of the HBCU Capital Funding Program.
Trump’s statement, according to reports in Politico and The Hill, singled out the program as being an example of one that allocated benefits on the basis of race ethnicity and gender. Therefore, the HBCU program would be treated “in a manner consistent with the requirement to afford equal protection of the law under the Due Process Clause of the Constitution’s Fifth Amendment.”
Sounds more like a threat than a vote of confidence.
A White House spokesman told Politico that Trump identified that some provisions in the appropriations bill could conflict with his constitutional authority and duties, and that the president will interpret them consistent with the Constitution.
