Taxpayer Advocacy Group To Obama: 'Put Up Or Shut Up' On Spending Cuts

While Americans for Tax Reform has not endorsed an particular debt limit plan, it does endorse Sen. Mitch McConnell's objective of forcing President Obama to put his “imaginary spending cuts” in writing.

“The onus is now on the President to admit to the American people he has no plan to cut spending – put up or shut up,” the group said in a news release.

But another anti-tax group, FreedomWorks, accused McConnell of "wimping out when it actually matters."

On Tuesday, McConnell (R-Ky.) announced a "contingency" plan that would require the president to submit, along with a request for $700 billion in more borrowing authority, a package of spending cuts of the same or greater value.

McConnell's goal, Americans for Tax Reform said, "is to make President Obama own up to the lie he's been telling taxpayers for the past two years: he has no specific plan to cut spending. Congressional Democrats will have to admit the jig is up for them as well."
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