Budget Betrayal Threatens GOP Control Of Congress

[EasyAce]

By Josh Kimbrell
https://www.redstate.com/joshkimbrell/2018/03/23/budget-betrayal-threatens-gop-control-congress/

The unified Republican government this week passed a spending package that would have been praised by Barack Obama. The $1.3 trillion omnibus spending package was created in secret and was passed with the pressure of a looming government shutdown. This disaster of a spending bill raises discretionary spending and grows the national debt, two things Congressional Republicans have campaigned against in the past four elections.

This spending glut increases discretionary spending by 13 percent, and all but assures that the federal government will run a $1 trillion deficit this year. This will be the highest deficit since mid-way through the Obama Administration. It betrays the Republican promises of cutting spending, capping spending as a percentage of our economy, and dashes any hope of balancing the budget in the near future. It is fiscal recklessness that undermines our nation’s financial future and our government’s solvency . . .

. . . Clearly, electing Republicans is not an automatic answer for fiscal responsibility; we must elect conservative champions intent on rolling back spending, capping it as a percent of our economy, and balancing the federal budget.

[INVAR]

This will hopefully send the GOP to the grave next to the Whigs where they belong.

The consequences of what the last decade has sown now by both parties, may not bode well for what remains of our prosperity and liberty to survive much longer.

[TomSea]

Red State doesn't even notice the difference of a Budget and an Omnibus, figures, I've come to expect such amateurism.

That said, the Republicans did wrong. They say that Omnibus money does not necessary go to these projects, that it can be held back. That may be technically correct but probably won't have much of an effect.

[jpsb]

Red State doesn't even notice the difference of a Budget and an Omnibus, figures, I've come to expect such amateurism.

That said, the Republicans did wrong. They say that Omnibus money does not necessary go to these projects, that it can be held back. That may be technically correct but probably won't have much of an effect.

The GOP can go to hell. I hope the GOP loses 100 House seats and every Senate seat up for
reelection. The GOP has broken EVERY promise it make F+++ them.

[Sanguine]

This spending glut increases discretionary spending by 13 percent, and all but assures that the federal government will run a $1 trillion deficit this year.