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G.O.P. Rift on Need for Alternate Budget
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Mar 13, 2009 06:19pm |
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| Category | Strategy |
| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Saturday, March 14, 2009 12:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Congressional Republicans are engaged in a highly coordinated political assault on President Obama’s budget, but they are not so united when it comes to offering an alternative to the spending plan they have been shredding as irresponsible.
Breaking with the House, Senate Republicans say they do not intend to offer a full counterproposal to Mr. Obama’s sweeping $3.6 trillion spending blueprint, a decision that will spare them from outlining potentially painful decisions required to bring federal books more in line with their call to hold down spending, cut taxes and reduce the deficit.
With a month to go before Congress is supposed to pass a budget resolution, Democrats say the absence of a competing Senate Republican plan makes Republican complaints about the Obama approach ring hollow. Would Republicans, they ask, continue to keep the costs of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan off the books? Account for the costly annual change to protect middle class taxpayers from the Alternative Minimum Tax? Set up a disaster fund to prepare for emergencies?
“They are long on criticism and short on a plan,” said Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff. “They have a communications strategy instead of an economic one.” |
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