National Tea Party movement leaders are divided when it comes to whether or not they support the 11th hour budget deal House Speaker John Boehner, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and President Barack Obama cut late Friday night.
Tea Party Patriots co-founder Mark Meckler came out in strong opposition to the deal.
“In the seven days preceding [this] deal, our nation’s debt increased by $54.1 billion. And now our ‘leaders’ are touting as ‘historic’ the $38.5 billion in spending cuts for the rest of fiscal year 2011,” Meckler said in a statement. “Leadership requires bold, visionary action in times of crisis. Are we getting bold, visionary leadership in Washington, DC? We think the numbers speak for themselves.”
FreedomWorks president and CEO Matt Kibbe, on the other hand, told The Daily Caller he thinks the deal is a “victory in the sense that we are moving this massive stubborn Washington establishment in our direction.”
“I do think it is a profound shift in conversation in Washington, D.C., that has been forced by the Tea Party in that everybody is now stating how much to cut,” Kibbe said. “President Obama started off wanting to increase spending in FY 2011. Harry Reid sat on his hands saying, ‘I’m not going to cut any spending.’ We brought them in our direction. We’ve got a lot more work to do, but at least they’ve acknowledged we’ve got to cut.”
Rep. Steve King, Iowa Republican, told TheDC he’ll vote ‘no’ on the deal next week, but won’t cut into leadership’s efforts by trying to make a strategic block of the bill.
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Tea Party Patriots co-founder Mark Meckler came out in strong opposition to the deal.
“In the seven days preceding [this] deal, our nation’s debt increased by $54.1 billion. And now our ‘leaders’ are touting as ‘historic’ the $38.5 billion in spending cuts for the rest of fiscal year 2011,” Meckler said in a statement. “Leadership requires bold, visionary action in times of crisis. Are we getting bold, visionary leadership in Washington, DC? We think the numbers speak for themselves.”
FreedomWorks president and CEO Matt Kibbe, on the other hand, told The Daily Caller he thinks the deal is a “victory in the sense that we are moving this massive stubborn Washington establishment in our direction.”
“I do think it is a profound shift in conversation in Washington, D.C., that has been forced by the Tea Party in that everybody is now stating how much to cut,” Kibbe said. “President Obama started off wanting to increase spending in FY 2011. Harry Reid sat on his hands saying, ‘I’m not going to cut any spending.’ We brought them in our direction. We’ve got a lot more work to do, but at least they’ve acknowledged we’ve got to cut.”
Rep. Steve King, Iowa Republican, told TheDC he’ll vote ‘no’ on the deal next week, but won’t cut into leadership’s efforts by trying to make a strategic block of the bill.
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