There’s an Alternative to the Boehner-Obama Budget Deal (and It’ll Save Billions)

The Boehner-Obama budget-buster passed Congress with only 79 House Republicans voting in its favor

Paul Winfree, --February 12, 2016

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President Barack Obama released his final budget this week. It’s a budget that embraces the spending agreement Obama negotiated with outgoing House Speaker John Boehner last year.
Republicans in Congress will make the next move. And it’s important that Congress not bless the Boehner-Obama spending agreement in its budget. The Boehner-Obama budget-buster passed Congress with only 79 House Republicans voting in its favor (167 were opposed) and should not be a part of any budget written by the Republican majority. The GOP’s budget should abandon arbitrary limits on defense and non-defense spending and replace them with an aggregate limit on discretionary spending in 2017, as promised with last year’s budget. More...

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