Don’t Scuttle the Sequester | Human Events
Is anyone in the Republican party paying any attention to the pitch-forked anger and contempt that voters are expressing toward Washington? The Donald Trump phenomenon is nothing if not a voice of protest by conservatives against the broken promises by the GOP leadership and their unwillingness to stand up to Obama’s imperial presidency. Here we go again. While all of the attention in Washington is on a potential showdown between Barack Obama and the congressional Republicans on Planned Parenthood funding, what’s gone unnoticed is a scheme to bust through the budget caps. This would be the third time Congress has busted through the spending ceilings in four years and to do so again would be another capitulation to the White House on the budget. Those budget caps, and the enforcement mechanism of across the board spending cuts called “sequestration,” were enacted as part of the Budget Control Act. This was the deal between Obama and the Speaker John Boehner to get the budget deficit down from its towering height of $1.5 trillion.
Source: Don’t Scuttle the Sequester | Human Events
