The new budget deal that Paul Ryan and Patty Murray have been working on will get rid of some, if not all the sequester cuts that were agreed upon in 2011 and signed by Obama. I can’t say I’m surprised anymore. I was fooled into thinking Paul Ryan was a fiscal conservative. This proves he is just another big government Karl Rove Republican. Ryan is also pushing to pass amnesty.
Fox News:
Fiscal hawks were most concerned about signs that lawmakers could move to chip away at a 2011 budget pact, considered by conservatives to be the most significant deficit-trimming legislation of the past five years. Lawmakers are said to be considering restoring some of the funding hit by the so-called sequester and raising spending levels above the $967 billion level set in the 2011 deal.
Fox News has learned that both sides are looking at discretionary spending caps of just over $1 trillion for each of the next two years.
Urging lawmakers to oppose any deal that raises spending above that level, Americans for Prosperity President Tim Phillips said any Republicans who support it would be “joining liberal Democrats in breaking their word to the American people to finally begin reining in government over-spending that has left us over 17 trillion in debt.”
FreedomWorks and Heritage Action similarly came out against any plan that increases spending. These groups are particularly influential in the House, where many sitting Republican members won election with their help.