House GOP Threatens Government Shutdown To Get Steeper Cuts To Food Assistance, Financial Regulation
Source: ThinkProgress
House Republicans made it clear earlier this year that they had no intention of upholding the debt deal reached in 2011, despite a vow from President Obama that he would veto any appropriations bills that attempted to cut more spending than was agreed upon last August and a pledge from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) that the deal would be upheld in the Senate.
After earlier indications that they would make substantial cuts to domestic programs to preserve defense spending, the House Appropriations Committee made it official yesterday, setting a spending level $27 billion below the level agreed to in the debt deal. The committee, bowing to the GOPs more conservative wing, will make deep cuts to food assistance, financial regulations, and a host of other programs, setting up the potential for a government shutdown when the fiscal year ends in October, Politico reports:
The House begins with a total of $1.028 trillion for discretionary spending, $19 billion below the $1.047 trillion target set last summer and $15 billion below what was enacted just months ago for the current 2012 fiscal year. Republicans would also go $8 billion over the caps set in the Budget Control Act for defense spending[/b, and the result would be a net reduction of more than $27 billion from all other appropriations.
This translates into an added cut of about 5 percent, with the burden falling chiefly on a half-dozen domestic spending bills affecting nutrition programs, transportation, financial regulatory agencies, natural resources, and especially the labor, health and education bill cited by Dicks.
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/04/26/471499/house-gop-government-shutdown/
BootinUp
(47,174 posts)insert pic of Obama smiling.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Feeling anxious for those for whom these programs are their lifeline. And those who work to take care of them in many situations who are already taking the media abuse and are daily stigmatized by the GOP now in office.
People are weary of these stunts, and the ones most hurt only have the good will of Obama and Democrats to look after them since they are in no position to fight back. Literally, their lives are in their hands.
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)do this we can save programs. The Pugs are as close to nazis as this country has come I think. I can't stomach even looking at them, they are so cruel.
cstanleytech
(26,306 posts)up with their continued threats to shut down the government and hopefully it will backfire big time on them and we will get a clear senate and congressional majority and then we can tell the gop to go piss up a rope and finally try to fix the problems they have caused this nation due to their blind ideological stupidity.
eyewall
(674 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Yeah, looks like they called that one right.
gateley
(62,683 posts)Kablooie
(18,637 posts)saras
(6,670 posts)They are pathological criminals, is what they are. I don't know what it about people's magical, irrational belief in "party politics" that prevents so many from seeing this, and from ACTING ON IT.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)rppper
(2,952 posts)Tear it up republican warriors....it worked so well for you during Clinton....already had your bluff called during the debt ceiling crisis....go for it asshole!
DallasNE
(7,403 posts)On the impact for job "creation". If that score indicate negative 300,000 jobs, what will the Republican response be?
oldhippydude
(2,514 posts)that we take back the house & hold the senate... make our day
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)the richest and meanest man in town.
Seriously though, if Obama would actually stick to his guns, he would easily be re elected if they pulled such a stunt. Hate it when Republicans gamble with American lives..
Rain Mcloud
(812 posts)sakabatou
(42,168 posts)Downwinder
(12,869 posts)kitt6
(516 posts)I never thought that I would speak such superstition. Now: Which republican is it? I think you start with Old, and the mouth!
sofa king
(10,857 posts)You will recall that Sean Hannity follower Jim David Adkisson killed two and wounded seven before being tackled by the members of the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville, Tennessee.
His written manifesto cited, among other things, his unemployment and the fact that his food stamps were about to run out.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)And then wonder why you lost big in November!
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts).... would anyone notice?
The do-nothing GOP.
This is a good time to resurrect that meme.
DO NOTHING GOP CONGRESS
DO NOTHING GOP SENATORS
Javaman
(62,532 posts)that will work for them. LOL