Posted on 02/06/2016 7:08:26 PM PST by Lorianne
n what appears to be an extraordinary snub of White House budget director Shaun Donovan, the Republican chairs of the House and Senate Budget Committees announced on Thursday they would not host Donovan’s testimony on President Obama’s final budget submission next week.
Obama will unveil his fiscal 2017 budget request next Tuesday, just barely meeting the statutory deadline for submitting a new budget to Congress. But Senate Budget Committee Chair Mike Enzi (R-WY) and House Budget Committee chief Tom Price (R-GA) issued a joint statement tonight saying Donovan wasn’t welcome to testify because the administration wasn’t serious about addressing the mounting national debt – which reached an historic $19 trillion this week.
“It appears the President’s final budget will continue to focus on new spending proposals instead of confronting our government’s massive overspending and debt,†Enzi said. “It is clear that this President will not put forth the budget effort that our times and our country require.â€
Enzi said that instead of hearing from an administration “unconcerned with our $19 trillion in debt,†Congress should reform a broken budget process and restore public trust in the process.
Price argued that “Nothing in the president’s prior budgets – none of which have ever balanced – has shown that the Obama Administration has any real interest in actually solving our fiscal challenges or saving critical programs like Medicare and Social Security from insolvency.â€
(Excerpt) Read more at thefiscaltimes.com ...
Ryan and McConnell already surrendered.
Toooooooo little.
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay tooooo late.
Before Obama leaves, he will have added about $11 trillion to the debt. That is about $100,000.00 per every household in the USA.
Where did the money go? It didn’t go to infrastructure. It didn’t go to our military. It didn’t go to taxpayers. Where did it go?
Not that I would have suggested it but he could have given $100,000.00 to every household in the USA for the amount of debt he’s run up. Instead, we have nothing to show for it but an economy that is close to collapsing.
Is it me, or does it seem like we have a new Budget Proposal every week? A Trillion more one week, Two Trillion the next.
Are they just now realizing this? I suppose it's true that you can't fix stupid.
This should have been done 5 years ago when Republicans won the House.
A little too little, way to late :(
Rand Paul's immigration speech...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.[Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg]
Unfortunately, like many of the major debates in Washington, immigration has become a stalemate-where both sides are imprisoned by their own rhetoric or attachment to sacred cows that prevent the possibility of a balanced solution.
Immigration Reform will not occur until Conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.
Let's start that conversation by acknowledging we aren't going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.
If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you...
This is where prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society.
Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors.
Rand Paul calls on conservatives to embrace immigration reformLatinos, should be a natural constituency for the party, Paul argued, but "Republicans have pushed them away with harsh rhetoric over immigration." ...he would create a bipartisan panel to determine how many visas should be granted for workers already in the United States and those who might follow... [and the buried lead] "Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers...[Posted on 04/21/2013 1:52:42 PM PDT by SoConPubbie]
[but he's not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]
“Ryan and McConnell already surrendered”
They are off addressing lobbyist concerns with the budget.
It will be $20 trillion by Jan 20, 2017
The givers have had it with the takers....for sometime now. And we’re still told we’re not giving enough.
Yeah. I thought their huge, azz kissing Omnibus was supposed to take us all the way through to the next election. The reasoning was to get it off the table for the Republican candidate.
Of course they all lie so........
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