Boehner: Budget Deal 'Not Going to be Easy'
The Hill reports:
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said “it’s not going to be easy” to forge a spending agreement between conservatives and Democrats, but he voiced confidence that Congress would avoid a government shutdown in the weeks ahead.
“It’s not going to be easy. We never thought it was going to be easy, ” Boehner said Wednesday after a Republican forum on job creation.
The House on Tuesday passed a stopgap measure to finance the government for an additional three weeks, despite growing opposition from conservative Republicans over the pace of spending cuts. The bill cuts $6 billion over three weeks and is expected to pass the Senate before a Friday deadline. Fifty-four House Republicans voted against the bill, and the GOP leadership needed help from Democrats to push it through.
Boehner defended the legislation the House approved Tuesday, saying it amounted to $10 billion in immediate cuts over five weeks, including a two-week stopgap measure on which the government is currently operating. That measure expires Friday.
“When was the last time you saw the government here in Washington cut anything?” he said.
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