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The White House today reacted to news that representations of President
Obama’s budget had been voted down by the House and Senate by decrying the
introduction of the amendments, by Republicans, as “gimmicks.”
“Gimmicks are not solutions,” White House press secretary Jay Carney
emailed to ABC News. “The American people overwhelmingly support a balanced
approach to our long-term budget challenges. That’s the approach the
President supports. The sooner Republicans drop their intransigence and join
the American people in supporting a balanced approach, the sooner Congress
will be able to come together and reach a compromise.”
Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Miss., introduced a budget amendment representing the
president’s budget request; the Sessions amendment was voted down 99-0. (
You can read it HERE.)
A similar effort from Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-SC, was rejected in the House
414-0.
Sessions told reporters that it was “stunning” that no one voted for the
version of the Obama budget he put forward. “A sitting president of the
United States, seeking reelection, can’t lay out a plan that will gain a
single vote in the House or Senate for the financial future of America,” he
said. “It speaks volumes
While the Sessions and Mulvaney bills put forward the same topline numbers
as those in the president’s budget, neither offered any specifics. The
Sessions legislation was 56 pages long; actual budgets are closer to 2,000
pages long.
Thus, a White House official said, the Sessions proposal was a “shell that
could be filled with a number of things that could hurt our economy and hurt
the middle class,” a White House official said. “For example, rather than
ending tax breaks for millionaires his budget could hit the revenue target
by raising taxes on the middle class and rather than ending wasteful
programs, his budget could hit its spending target with severe cuts to
important programs.”
“This is the president’s budget,” said the top Democrat on the Senate
Budget Committee, Sen. Kent Conrad of South Dakota, indicating the
voluminous budget proposal President Obama offered. “This is what Sen.
Sessions has presented as being the president’s budget,” he said,
indicating the much slimmer document.
“I think it’s readily apparent there is a big difference between the
president’s budget, which I hold in my hands, and what Sen. Sessions has
presented as being the president’s budget. This is not the president’s
budget. So, of course, we’re not going to support it. It’s not what the
president proposed.”
The White House official said the Sessions and Mulvaney’s bills were mere
GOP stunts to get Democrats on record opposing ‘the President’s budget’”
as well as distracting from what the House Republican budget would do,
which the official described as “protect(ing) massive tax cuts for
millionaires and billionaires while making the middle class and seniors pay.”
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