WH: Obama Will Veto GOP Stopgap

The Hill reports:

President Obama would veto a short-term spending agreement proposed by Republicans.

The White House said Thursday that Obama would veto the bill that would fund the military through September and the federal government for one week, saying that the president "believes that we need to put politics aside and work out our differences for a bill that covers the rest of the fiscal year."

"As the President stated on April 5, 2011, if negotiations are making significant progress, the Administration would support a short-term, clean Continuing Resolution to allow for enactment of a final bill," the White House said in an official release of administration policy that was to be released later Thursday.

The House is set to vote later Thursday on the legislation, which would cut spending this year by $12 billion.

Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has cast the bill as a "troop funding" legislation since it would fund the Pentagon through the end of the fiscal year, which runs through Sept. 30.