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By   Colin Clark on December 23, 2020 at 6:00 AM WASHINGTON: The most overlooked story of 2020, including by this publication, is that having a president, Donald Trump, largely divorced from making military decisions worked pretty well for the US military. What do I mean? President Trump loved to point to “my generals” as if this marked some special genius on his part (many senators might not agree about to whom they belong) but he appeared to exercise a very light touch on the vast majority of important military decisions, especially budgetary ones. He rarely weighed in on operational...

Frustration that we all have that ms-13 gang members can still get into the country. i hope the senate will take up my bill quickly and get it on the president's desk and then also -- >> neil: i don't know. that looks dicey there. >> it's a simple bill -- >> neil: it's a great bill. i take nothing away from it. but in this environment, it's toxic right now. do you think we'll be looking at a shut down for one reason or the other? >> i don't. i think we have -- today you saw the two-year budget that we have worked out bicameral, bipartisan. i do think we'll have support for that. one of the thi...

Tomorrow. this weekend he'll be at mara l mar mar-a-lago. >> before he heads to mar-a-lago, the president will be in virginia giving a speech about military spending. you see him making that a priority for his budget, $54 billion in increased is his recommendation offset by $54 billion in cuts across domestic agencies, including the environmental protection agency. trump sees an opportunity to maybe bring the hawks and republican party who are very skeptical of him, privately and publicly, senators like john mccain, to come to his side. he doesn't support this defense sequestration, these auto...

Are you trusting of paul ryan to represent republican interests? is there anything you're hearing that would be a deal-breaker for you? >> well, i have a lot of confidence in paul ryan. i think he knows where we need to be and the question is are there the votes to sell this. we need to do a down payment that proves we can do a long-term super deal. what we need to do this week, what we need to do in december is make some long-term entitlement cuts that will free up a little money so we don't have to take the severe defense sequestration cuts and research cuts that are going to be part of the ...

This is ridiculous we spent all this time talking about how much damage the other side is going to insist on inflicting to the economy instead of talking about how do we get on a sustainable fiscal path to have strong economic growth and the prosperity that we ought to have and that our kids deserve. i agree this has all been misplaced. i want to get this behind us and do the best we possibly can on the tax side and focus on the real problem here, which is spending. >> sean: senator johnson, i'm told that sequestration will go through regardless of what maybe minut mini deal might han here. is...