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**kSmica** · 01-22-2011, 08:54 AM

Boehner is reportedly having a tough time explaining to the conservative faction that produced these proposed cuts that there's a budget process.

The spending authority of the last congress doesn't expire until March. Only then can new budget proposals be considered. And by then, there's only six months left in the annual budget cycle. The conservative wing is arguing that they made a promise to cut $100 million this year. But it's impossible to cram that amount of cuts into what's left of the budget year without doing a lot of damage to essential and critical programs and services.

That's a place Boehner and Ryan don't want to go, because it's just an arbitrary number that felt good to campaign on. And the aftermath could carry political consequences for the GOP not unlike the aftermath of the Gingrich government shutdown.

01-22-2011, 08:54 AM	#2
kSmica Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 631 Senior Member	Boehner is reportedly having a tough time explaining to the conservative faction that produced these proposed cuts that there's a budget process. The spending authority of the last congress doesn't expire until March. Only then can new budget proposals be considered. And by then, there's only six months left in the annual budget cycle. The conservative wing is arguing that they made a promise to cut $100 million this year. But it's impossible to cram that amount of cuts into what's left of the budget year without doing a lot of damage to essential and critical programs and services. That's a place Boehner and Ryan don't want to go, because it's just an arbitrary number that felt good to campaign on. And the aftermath could carry political consequences for the GOP not unlike the aftermath of the Gingrich government shutdown.
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