Willie,
My understanding is McConnell wanted to conveniently push it past the 2018 election. Trump's deal with Democrats only pushes this to November thus his leverage to continue holding their feet to the fire.
If Trump went with McConnell, he'd be giving this Do-Nothing Big Government RINO Congress a free pass to the 2018 elections and the weasels would simply ignore Trump's agenda, including the wall.
I'll tell ya, these Do-Nothing RINO backstabbing weasels are something else. No Obamacare repeal, no tax reform, no wall funding...Ryan and McConnell can't deliver on anything except bullshit Russia investigations and probably amnesty when all is said and done. With a GOPe like this, who needs Democrats?
Voters really need to clean house during the upcoming primaries!
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