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White House to miss deadline for report on 'fiscal cliff' budget cuts 09/07/12 01:37 PM ET
- Spokesman Jay Carney told reporters on Air Force One that the report will be coming next week.
The Office of Management and Budget has repeatedly failed to make legal deadlines. It delivered its presidential budget proposals and mid-session updates late both this year and last year. Republicans have tried to tie the tardiness to the failure of the Senate to pass a budget resolution for the last three years.
"Like the [Sen. Harry] Reid majority, the White House has shown astonishingly little regard for budget law in this time of crisis," said Stephen Miller, a spokesman for Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala), who co-authored the transparency law. The sequestered cuts coming in January were triggered by the failure of the 2011 supercommittee to reach a compromise on deficit reduction. The Pentagon says the looming defense cuts will devastate the military. The deal also cuts non-defense spending, but shields most entitlement benefits. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), another author of the transparency bill, blasted the delay of the report and said the administration "seems to think it is above the law." The Obama administration had hoped that the defense cuts in the sequester would force the GOP to agree to new taxes in a deficit deal, and rejected a short-term fix that would have required another showdown on the debt ceiling before the election. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Obama needs to come clean about his plans to carry out the spending cuts.
(I wonder if The Hill (this source) is legitimate enough for our liberal friends?) |