Trump: No matter whether Republicans use one or two laws

Trump: No matter whether Republicans use one or two laws

Washington - President Donald Trump emphasized in a meeting with the Republican Senator of the Senate on Wednesday that he would like to implement his agenda as soon as possible while he played down the disagreements among the Republican leaders in Capitol via specific strategies.

Trump's plans for US politics

During the almost two -hour meeting, Trump discussed a variety of topics, including the closure of the border, the need to increase the debt limit, to compensate for the household and the introduction of tariffs as possible funding for its plans. On an occasion, Trump joked and the Republican senators about considering Canada as 51st state.

disagreements and the legislative strategy

Trump admitted to journalists that there was a gap between the spokesman for the House of Representatives Mike Johnson and the majority leader of the Senate John Thune about how his proposals for extending tax cuts, reforms of border security and energy policy as well as the debt limit can be promoted. However, he explained that he wanted to leave the decision to the congress leaders.

"Whether a law or two laws - that doesn't matter to me. You will clarify that. But the end result will be the same," said Trump.

political dynamics in Washington

Trump is in Washington to take part in the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter, which he had criticized during a broad press conference on Tuesday. After he had honored the deceased Democrat on Wednesday evening in the captain, he met with Republican senators - only five days after the newly elected MPs were sworn in and the party took control of the chamber, which gives him a dominance of power in Washington.

The Republican senators stated that he answered questions from them in their meeting. "Everything was asked," said Senator Tommy Tuberville from Alabama. "Foreign policy up to everything else." Senator Eric Schmitt added: "Everyone pursues the same goal here, the great profit for the topics for which he started."

budget negotiations and political strategy

Although numerous Republican senators spoke to divide Trump's agenda into two laws - starting with a package to border, national security and energy - the designated president seemed open to a single package if this would be easier to say goodbye to the House of Representatives.

"No decisions were made," said Senator Shelley Moore Capito about the strategy. "He heard from us and our guide that the strategy for a second law is very lively here." Minutes after Trump's statements in front of journalists repeated Thune that his conference is firmly behind the president and that the strategic discussions are still in progress.

strengthening Trump's expansionism

The willingness of the Republicans to support the designated president was obvious in the early day when several of his allies defended his statements that the United States should take control of Greenland, an autonomous area of ​​Denmark, as well as the Panama Channel and see Canada as 51st state.

Trump did not deviate from his expansionist suggestions on Wednesday evening and left open whether he would consider military actions to take over Greenland and the Panama Canal. When he asked CNN whether he would send military troops to acquire Greenland or the Panama Canal, he replied that his son, Donald Trump Jr., was received with applause during a visit to the Danish territory.

The Senator from Kansas, Roger Marshall, previously said: "I see Greenland Certainly as a way, a great national security reinforcement." The Senator from North Dakota, Kevin Cramer, expressed that he did not believe that Trump jokes with his expansion ideas.

Mixed reactions in the House of Representatives

The reactions of the Republican MPs were mixed on Wednesday. MP Don Bacon from Nebraska said: "You are our allies; we should treat them like this." MP Chuck Edwards from North Carolina said that "he had to talk to the president about his idea", adding: "I will not yet make a judgment behind the logic."

This story and the heading have been updated with additional developments.