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Republicans Say Obama Budget Plan Not
Serious
Published February 15, 2011
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Feb. 15: Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D.,
right, looks on as the committee's ranking Republican, Sen. Jeff Sessions,
R-Ala. questions Budget Director Jack Lew on Capitol Hill in Washington during
the committee's hearing on President Barack Obama's fiscal 2012 federal budget.
(AP)
President
Obama urged lawmakers on both sides of the aisle Tuesday to
"give a little bit,"
1as they
begin to debate his $3.7 trillion budget proposal for 2012.
But Republicans fired back
that the federal government has been giving for the past two years and that
Obama still hasn't given them enough to work with in terms of spending cuts.
1Though
the administration says the plan will save more than $1 trillion over
the
next decade
, the GOP says the president
is not taking any serious steps to address entitlement reform, is not cutting
enough in the way of discretionary spending and as a result will not reverse the
rising debt anytime soon.
1"I would
best sum it up as a sort of lack of seriousness
," Senate Republican
Leader Mitch
McConnell, R-Ky., told reporters Tuesday afternoon, after Obama conducted
his first solo press conference of the year.
Republicans, who are trying
to cut billions out of this year's budget while girding for a battle over next
year's budget,
1say
discretionary spending rose by 24 percent over the past two years
and
that merely freezing funding -- as Obama proposes, along with targeted cuts --
is not good enough.
"He just punted," House
Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday.
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