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Originally Posted by dellinger63
You ask and you shall receive. Bravo GOP!
Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives will seek $32 billion in spending cuts from current levels this year as part of an effort to reduce a forecasted $1.5 trillion deficit.
Aides to House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan outlined the savings to reporters Thursday. These spending cuts would become part of a bill to fund a wide range of federal government programs through the current fiscal year that ends Sept. 30.
RIOT since you were so excited about the Obama freeze surely you must be ecstatic at a genuine cut? BTW Not holding my breath.
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Yes, Dell, during the campaign the Republicans promised $100 billion a year in tax cuts. They said they would bring a cut to the House floor every week (oh, yeah, except they won't touch defense)
Then when Boehner and Ryan were asked about it on election day, they realized that the budget year was already half over, and they couldn't keep that promise (although they were the ones making the budgets, so many found it surprising they forgot about the budget year when making the campaign promise)
So then Boehner, Cantor and Ryan said $50 billion (which made the Tea Party really mad).
Now they say they can maybe only find $32 billion, that they will niggle and dime out of current funding for the active budget year - which means it's essentially unused leftover monies from this budget year that wouldn't get spent anyways.
But yay, Republicans! We keep our fingers crossed
