GOP looks to reduce spending after hearing criticism back home

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GOP looks to reduce spending after hearing criticism back home
By Melanie Zanona - 04/09/18 01:51 PM EDT

Republicans are eyeing ways to rein in spending this week after facing a barrage of criticism back home for swelling the federal deficit with a massive government funding package.

Republican lawmakers who ran on a platform of fiscal responsibility say they are feeling the heat from constituents outraged over government spending.

“They’re upset. They’re saying, ‘What are you guys doing up there?’ ” Rep. Dave Brat (R-Va.), a member of the far-right House Freedom Caucus, said of his constituents. “If the Republicans stand for anything, it’s fiscal responsibility.”

The House is slated to vote Thursday on a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, while GOP leaders are in talks with the Trump administration about clawing back some of the funding hikes that were recently adopted in the 2018 omnibus spending bill.

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http://thehill.com/homenews/house/382300-gop-looks-to-reduce-spending-after-hearing-criticism-back-home

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LOL!

Idiots.

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With 'friends' like these...

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“If the Republicans stand for anything, it’s fiscal responsibility.”

The Republican party has proven that assertion to be an in-our-face boldfaced lie.

It is now the Party of spending bigger and bolder than the Democrats, and drafting trillion dollar spending bills in secret and voting on them before anyone has a chance to read them.  So as to make Pelosi's "We have to pass it so you can find out what it in it" to be set as governing precedent. This after they promised in 2014 that they would require at minimum 72 hours to digest and read a bill before attempting a vote on it.

If the GOP now says it looks to reduce spending after what they have done: