Republicans - 'No more Sequestration or CR's'

Glenn Quagmire

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Apr 30, 2012
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A rare show of unity from Republican appropriators. They want a budget number, not another CR. They do not want sequestration or shutdown.

If they can fly under the media radar, they may actually get a budget done. Thanks to the focus on the ACA rollout debacle, maybe they can get the work done?

"The thirteen top Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee joined in a letter Monday urging budget negotiators to redouble their efforts and report a top-line number for discretionary spending before Thanksgiving or no later than Dec. 2.

If a timely agreement is not reached, the likely alternatives could have extremely damaging repercussions, warns the letter. It is addressed to the House and Senate Budget committees but appears aimed too at Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), who faces pressure to take a more active role if the talks continue to drift with no resolution in sight."

..."The failure to reach a budget deal to allow Appropriations to assemble funding for 2014 will reopen the specter of another government shutdown, the letter says. Second it will reopen the probability of governance by continuing resolution, based on prior year outdated spending needs and priorities, dismissing in one fell swoop all the work done by Congress to enact appropriations

Third, the current sequester and the upcoming Second Sequester in January would result in more indiscriminate across the board reductions that could have negative consequences on critically important federal programs, especially our national defense.

Indeed, the military stands to be most hurt by the second round of spending cuts, and the Defense Departments budget would fall to $475 billion, $21 billion below the current stopgap bill which is funding the government into January.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/budget-deal-gop-appropriators-100002.html#ixzz2l2xgvkZA