Just when I thought it couldn’t get better….it got better.
Republicans abandoned a bill to slash $74 billion in federal spending Thursday after coming under heavy pressure from Tea Party-backed freshmen to fulfill the party’s pledge of cutting $100 billion this year, House aides confirmed.
House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) had intended to release a continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government after March 4 that would have cut $32 billion from current spending levels and $74 billion from Obama’s 2011 budget request. He outlined some of the major cuts in the CR on Wednesday.
But the GOP’s large bloc of Tea Party-backed freshmen resisted that plan, instead calling for the full $100 billion cut the party had promised in their “Pledge to America.”
We want this budget reduced. We want spending reduced. We want government reduced.
Do it.
I respect people that stand their ground, even when that ground may, in my opinion, be the wrong path. I especially admire and respect folks that stand their ground when that ground, in my opinion, is the right path.
I especially admire and respect folks that stand their ground when that ground, in my opinion, is the right path.
Go people!