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Tuesday, June 04, 2013

White House Promises Veto of GOP Spending Plan

The White House stepped in Monday with a veto threat against a House GOP plan to advance a round of 2014 spending bills that would ease sequester-imposed cuts on the Pentagon while forcing even deeper cuts on non-defense programs.

Those cuts would come in areas like education, energy and water development and foreign aid.

In a statement, the White House budget office said the cuts called for in the GOP plan would force thousands of poor children off of Head Start, harm special education, cut federal law enforcement and dent medical research grants to thousands of scientists. It called on the Democratic Senate and GOP House to reach a broader agreement on the budget before advancing spending bills.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

they can cut everything in energy dept. we wouldn't miss it if they were dissolved. (my cousin worked there & retired. they don't do anything worthwhile)