It is clear Democrats want absolutely no controls on spending. As the Republicans and Democrats edge closer to a solution that would avoid the debt limit crisis, Democrats up the ante by attempting to bust the budget caps previously agreed to in sequestration. Bob Corker explains:
In
an interview Monday about ongoing budget and debt discussions on Fox
News’ “America’s Newsroom,” Senator Corker said Democrat efforts to
increase spending levels beyond the budget caps put in place as a result
of the 2011 Budget Control Act were a “major distraction” and “not
helpful to the process.”
“It was really a major
distraction that Democrats would want to try to bust the budget caps… The
reason you have these forcing moments is to reduce spending, to put in
place spending reforms that make our nation stronger. For them to …
move in the other direction was not helpful to this process,” said
Corker.
For the first time since the 1950s, the Budget
Control Act, passed by Congress and signed into law in 2011, helped reduce
total government spending for two consecutive years. It will cause
non-emergency discretionary spending to be decreased from $1.090
trillion in 2011 to $967 billion this year. Corker has strongly urged his
colleagues to “hang tough on the sequester” and not allow any deal to
raise spending levels.
Corker remains hopeful that leaders in
Washington will strike a deal to avoid default before the end of the
week, stating, “I think finally, we may be on the right page today. I
think [we were] moving there late last night and early this morning.
And maybe –maybe – we’ll move beyond this. We do need to move beyond
this.”
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