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A number of the House GOP’s leading conservative members on Thursday will announce legislation that would cut $2.5 trillion over 10 years, which will be by far the most ambitious and far-reaching proposal by the new majority to cut federal government spending.
In an addition to individual program cuts, most of the savings would come from returning non-discretionary spending back to 2006 levels.
A good start, but they need to include Defense in there.
If the military cuts are not there they are just blowing hot air. The military is easily 40 percent of our budget (with the 'hidden' subbudgets in the Dep of Energey, etc...)
FY 2011 CR Amendment: Replace the spending levels in the FY 2011 continuing resolution (CR) with non-defense, non-homeland security, non-veterans spending at FY 2008 levels. The legislation will further prohibit any FY 2011 funding from being used to carry out any provision of the Democrat government takeover of health care, or to defend the health care law against any lawsuit challenging any provision of the act. $80 billion savings.
All the cuts are listed in the article.
Almost $1 Billion in obamacare administrative cost.
Quite an extensive list - a very good start indeed.
In an addition to individual program cuts, most of the savings would come from returning non-discretionary spending back to 2006 levels.
A good start, but they need to include Defense in there.
I will have to see the exact cuts they are making but on the surface it does sound good. I do hope they include themselves in those federal employees not getting any raises. I agree our spending on Defence needs to be reformed, far far too much waste.
Casper
Your own article says that Boehner isn't behind this yet because of potential backlash.
The Republican leadership is already talking backing away from cutting $100 billion. Cutting that much wouldn't probably get enough Republican votes, so my guess is that the cutting will be smaller. Still, it is a start.
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