Showing posts with label automatic spending cuts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label automatic spending cuts. Show all posts

Saturday, March 9, 2013

Boehner 'happy' to see sequester cuts happen

In a video released Friday, Democrats launched the latest salvo in the finger-pointing game over which party is to blame for the $85 billion in automatic cuts, which launched March 1. As the video repeatedly points out, House Speaker John Boehner got,"I got 98 percent of what I wanted, I'm pretty happy."



Hat Tip - thehill.com

Saturday, February 9, 2013

President Obama's Weekly Address 2/9/13: Averting the Sequester and Finding a Balanced Approach to Deficit Reduction

President Obama urges Congress to act to avoid a series of harmful and automatic cuts—called a sequester—from going into effect that would hurt our economy and the middle class and threaten thousands of American jobs. The President urges Congress to find a balanced approach to deficit reduction that makes investments in areas that help us grow and cuts what we don’t need.