[bert]

It is now up to the House to tell the president what must be cut in very specific line item language. It is easy to do, everybody knows where waste and unnecessary spending resides.

Let the House pass the very specific bill and then have the Senate reject it. That is the ir constitutional function. All this Fox News supported transfer talk fails to trealize just who is in control. It is the House.

[silverleaf]

Disagree, it is not up to “the House” (Boehner) to manage total budgetary
spending reductions, program by program, within a narrow window of discretionary spending...which I believe is only about 20% of the entire “budget”, or less. This leaves 80%of the "budget" (entitlements) untouchable- how does THAT get us out of the hole?

I say “budget” because there is no “budget”

Remember, the Senate has not exercised its role, and has not sent the House a budget for over 3 years.

This is why Boehner keeps saying the Senate needs to do its J-O-B before the House can do its J-O-B instead of making everything up as they go along.

This issue is way beyond a couple of Congressmen trying to make backroom deals at midnight while the adhd narcissist manchild plays golf and abuses Air Force One traveling on a perpetual campaign/vacation lifestyle

[silverleaf]

we must agree to disagree
It is the role of the Senate to come up with a budget, then
both houses approve it and potus signs it
Do you see what is missing her?

The bottom line. The budget.

When departments and agencies have budgets the department heads figure out where to prioritize and what to cut (or really here, to not be able to increase)

When there is no budget, there are no limits- everyman for himself. Take what you spent last year, add 8-10-20%, go for it.

Impossible for Boehner to manage the spending of every department and agency in the federal govt without even having a budget to meet

As far as I know no one proposed giving Congress line item veto over but it has been proposed for - and rejected by- the president