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Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Conservatives who vowed to stop spending keep spending

WASHINGTON - Tea party Republicans arrived in Washington seven years ago with a clear, loud message from angry voters: Slash spending. But once again, spending is going way up.

“Part of our job right now (is) that we keep pounding that Republicans still stand for fiscal responsibility,” said Rep. Mark Walker, R-N.C., who chairs the House Republican Study Committee, a coalition of conservatives.

But he was on the losing side as the House early Friday cleared a massive two-year spending package that President Donald Trump quickly signed into law. Sixty-seven Republicans voted against the two-year budget plan that became law Friday, but 167 voted yes.

The bill could add as much as $320 billion to the debt over the next 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office, and push the fiscal 2019 deficit past $1.2 trillion,according to the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a research group. The deal included about $100 billion in offsets, not enough to assuage many conservatives.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Most Poilitians are lying crooks / con artist.

Anonymous said...

See my comment on the article above.

Anonymous said...

That means they are not conservatives.
They are merely Republicans.
But not conservative.

Dubya' was not conservative either.
He was a Republican.

Red Pill vs. Blue Pill.
2 sides of the same coin.
The Bushes and the Clintons are good close friends.