BREAKING: Independent CBO Confirms Spending Cuts Exceed Debt Limit Hike in Revised GOP Plan; Bill Now Includes $22 Billion in Deficit Reduction in First Year
Posted by Speaker Boehner's Press Office on July 27, 2011
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released its analysis of the revised Budget Control Act of 2011 today, and CBOs analysis confirms that the spending cuts are greater than the debt hike affirming that the House GOP bill meets the critical test House Republicans have said they will insist upon for any bill to raise the nations debt ceiling. Specifically, the CBO analysis confirms the Republican plan will:
Republicans adjusted their spending cut bill after a lower-than-expected score from CBO. This updated analysis confirms what others are saying: the Republican plan changes the trajectory of spending and would keep the debt cutting process going. Unlike Senator Reids gimmick-filled plan, the Republican proposal includes real spending cuts and reforms that will restrain future spending and the spending cuts are larger than the debt limit increase.
This bill is far from perfect, but its a positive step forward that denies President the $2.4 trillion blank check that lets him continue his spending binge through the next election. Learn more about it here. New analysis by the House Budget Committee shows the GOP Budget Control Act achieves roughly 66 percent of the discretionary spending cuts in the House-passed budget. The GOP bill cuts and caps spending by $917 billion over 10 years $22 billion in FY2012 alone and will prevent a national default that would hurt private-sector job growth. It also keeps the focus on cutting spending, requiring a plan by December that cuts at least $1.8 trillion more. See the chart below from the Budget Committee:
What about the balanced budget amendment?
They should also pass a clean, 60 day extension and send it to the Senate. We can go through this every 60 days until the election. A 60 day extension is what the Dems passed in December of 2009!
Boehner’s “super committee” is a joke and a fraud.
Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985
Budget Enforcement Act of 1990
Balanced Budget Act of 1997.
Yep, just one more bill ought to do it.
As I read the bill this bill would allow in 2012 $270 Million more in spending, 2013 $ 299 million in spending by 2021 your spending more than 499 million how is this cutting anything when it allows the United States to spend more money??????
AMENDMENT TO S. 627 AS MODIFIED BY THE AMENDMENTS IN HOUSE
The amendment REQUIRES Congress pass a Balanced Budget Amendment to get the 2nd part of the debt increase.