GOP hits Obama for lack of urgency to tackle the deficit problem
March 7, 2011 Leave a Comment
Senate Republicans have been voicing out hard lately about President Obama’s lack of decisive action in dealing with the budget deficit and government spending. Several GOP Senate members even took their tough remarks against the White House policies over the media.
The wildly ballooning deficit is one intensely debated issue right now in Congress. A few disgruntled Republicans are not all too optimistic about any possible compromise between the president and the Republican-majority House with regard to implementing spending cuts.
Kentucky Republican senator Mitch McConnell went on air in NBC’s “Face the Nation” during the weekend to express his displeasure with the president’s phase on dealing with the problem despite having numerous discussions with him about the issue along with Vice President Joe Biden.
Congress is hard pressed to pass a budget by March 8 to avoid the possibility of a government shutdown. House Republicans have given the Democrat-led Senate more time to look through their proposed $61 billion spending cuts.
It is said that the White House has promised to meet the House Republicans halfway but so far they have been very disappointed with the president’s counter offer of $10.5 billion budget slash. The current budget for the next fiscal year stands at $3.7 trillion, which is already in the red by $1.65 trillion.
Republicans have accused Democrats for messing up the stimulus package, which according to them has yet to produce any significant impact to the economy and drive to reduce unemployment. Democrats on the other hand have been arguing that the GOP spending cuts will kill recovery that will put even more people out of work.
