Cantor Wants to See WH Spending Plan
The Hill reports:
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said he has told the White House to put forward a plan to cut spending for the remainder of 2011, as the House and Senate attempt to avert a government shutdown.
Cantor said he told White House Chief of Staff William Daley as much in a telephone call on Monday.
“I said to Mr. Daley, and I will say here, where is the president’s proposal? There’s a lot of rhetoric about meeting the Republicans and working with them … but then we see Leader Durbin saying that their – between $5 and $10 billion in cuts – has pushed the limit,” Cantor told reporters on Tuesday.
According to Cantor, Daley said he would talk to President Obama and get back to the majority leader on Tuesday. As of 2:30 p.m., Cantor had not heard from Daley, he said.
The House approved a long-term funding measure to cut $61 billion in spending through the end of the fiscal year in September. But because Senate Democrats opposed that plan and Obama threatened to veto it, the House and Senate had to approve a two-week extension with $4 billion in cuts
That stopgap expires March 18.
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