Republicans Won’t Even Read Administration Background Check Proposal Until Trump Is On Board

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at the National Rifle Association convention Friday, May 20, 2016, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
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A Trump administration background check proposal is circulating on Capitol Hill — but Republicans won’t even review it until President Donald Trump has given it his stamp of approval.

According to Politico, the document emerged as Attorney General William Barr and White House legislative affairs director Eric Ueland started meeting with Republican senators, though no one is willing to take ownership of the proposal until Trump makes a move. White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said emphatically that it is “not a White House document.”

“You don’t need to worry about what’s floating around,” Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) told Politico. “We aren’t going to do anything that the President isn’t going to sign anyway.”

Trump’s approval will be harder to come by after the NRA’s reaction: Jason Ouimet, executive director of the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action, called it a “non-starter.” The proposal would expand background checks to all commercial sale of guns.

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  1. Portraits in Courage.

  2. Avatar for jmacaz jmacaz says:

    How much more proof do independents and sane Republicans (if there are any left) need before they vote these morons into the permanent minority

  3. These Repubs need to be made to pay for their intransigence and cowardice.

  4. GOP Won’t Read Background Check Proposal Until Trump Is On Board

    And even then they won’t pay any attention to it because Trump might change his mind in the next few minutes. All it will take is a phone call from Wayne LaPierre or a tweet from Ann Coulter calling him a wuss for even thinking about it and his support for expanded background checks will be a thing of the past.

  5. RepubliCON legislators abdicating their role in enacting legislations.

    The big Q, why vote for the R’s whose self appointed role is to pander to the Dear Lying Lunatic Leader?

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