GOP Seeks $32B in 2011 Budget Cuts
The AP reports:
House Republican leaders on Thursday said they would seek to cut $74 billion from President Obama’s 2011 budget request.
The announcement sets a spending ceiling for the current fiscal year of $1.055 trillion.
The decision sets up a two-front battle with Democrats and President Obama, who have warned that such cuts could damage the economy, and with conservative Tea Party-backed Republicans who want to make deeper cuts to spending.
Republicans are trying to fend off internal criticism by offering conservative lawmakers the chance to offer amendments to the spending bill that would make more significant cuts.
The proposed ceiling is less than the GOP pledge during the fall campaign to cut $100 billion in “non-security” discretionary funding. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (Wis.) and other Republican leaders had already said that cut would not be possible because of the last Congress’s failure to approve a budget.
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