By Dan Calabrese ——Bio and Archives--October 8, 2015
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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid will back Mr. Obama in this disruptive maneuver. “My Democrats, our Democrats, have stated without any question, if it comes time that we sustain a presidential veto,” Mr. Reid said. In his news conference, Mr. Obama attacked Congress for the spending caps included in the 2011 budget sequestration that have strictly limited federal outlays. “Both parties,” he lamented, “put in place harmful automatic cuts that make no distinction between spending we don’t need and spending we do.” But Mr. Obama’s White House advisers were the authors of these spending caps, which he now excoriates as “mindless.” The president maintained Friday that the caps “have been keeping our economy from growing faster,” as if Washington can spend its way to prosperity. The president also argued that spending ought to go up, because the country’s annual deficit has gone down. “Since I took office, we’ve cut our deficits by two-thirds,” he said. Yet the spending caps he’d like to get rid of are responsible for much of that progress, and the deficit remains unacceptably large—$426 billion in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30.
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