But Boener folded for 40 billion this round which is going to leave them at a total of 78.5 billion, short of the 100 billion promised.
Jeff, in all due respect, I believe that your numbers are in error.
The $61 billion objective equates to the $100 billion promise -- as applied to the fiscal year (which is October-September). Over the calendar year February-January, which is all that the new Congress can actually control, that would result in $100 billion in savings.
To my knowledge, there has never been an expectation of more than $61 billion in savings on the FY 2011 budget -- which ends in September. Thus, a $78.5 billion savings represents a meaningful gain.
In the total scheme of things, of course, that's a relative pittance. But it establishes that the GOP stood their ground...and prevailed.
Which bodes well for the larger battles soon to come...
The GOP came out of this saying, WE GOT ALL WE COULD GET, WHICH IS PRETTY GOOD.
They should have come out of this saying, WE HAVE SHUT THE GOVERNMENT DOWN UNTIL WE HAVE THE FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY THIS COUNTRY NEEDS.
We could have blamed Odumbi for refusing to pay the troops like they were paid in 1995. We could have offered seperate bills for paying the troops.
The small amounts of money weren’t any amount that was going to change the deficit/debt situation. It really doesn’t matter how much money we got 30 40 60 70 100, it was about establishing the fact that WE MEANT BUSINESS
.................................... BUSINESS AS USUAL is what we got.