Senator McConnell Seeks Flexibility in Looming Spending Cuts.
Source: nyt/reuters
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday he favored replacing deep, across-the-board spending cuts set to begin on Friday with a more flexible approach that would be carried out by President Barack Obama's administration.
"I would be happy to give the president more flexibility and rely on the agency heads" to decide which specific programs should be cut to achieve $85 billion in reductions between March 1 and September 30, McConnell told reporters.
Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid swiftly batted down the idea, saying that tax increases must be part of any replacement for the so-called sequestration.
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liberal N proud
(60,336 posts)They want it all on the shoulders of programs that actually help people in need.
DFW
(54,405 posts)Make them in Red states! (and I am from one of them)
Let their (our) senators and governors see what they have wrought, and let their (our) citizens vote on whether or not to continue to vote for them.
Zoonart
(11,869 posts)By all means, let the President identify what to cut so that POTUS bears the blame. NICE TRY TURTLE !
LoisB
(7,206 posts)country blaming him for the cuts.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)If he can kiss his own ASS...maybe I'll pay attention to him.
Berlum
(7,044 posts)Freaking Republican Whimps-Against-America....
Third Doctor
(1,574 posts)This will not look good to the nuts back home.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)It really might be a trap, LOL.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)should be THE FIRST thing whacked in the cuts.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)GOPpers refuse to represent Americans except if you are the 1-2%ers. Eff everything and everyone else. Vote the bums out!
Whoever runs against him I will support from California!
daybranch
(1,309 posts)Stop the Gerrymandering in order to Neuter the beast and Cut the political Bull! It will not be easy but we must do it for democracy. for others, and for ourselves. We are fighting again in Ohio. Ask your local League of Women Voters what they are doing and why.