USA Today: Bachmann: Opposing view: GOP budget is not 'extreme'
This week, House Republicans did something that our Democratic colleagues failed to do last year when they held the majority: We put a budget resolution on the table. By laying out a serious proposal for the fiscal year that begins in October, and passing it out of the Budget Committee in April, House Republicans have already set a course to prevent the debacle that is threatening to disrupt government operations. Our government spent more than $3.5 trillion last fiscal year. That's about $67 billion of your tax dollars every week. And Democrats set us on a similar course for this year by not even proposing a budget. It was the height of reckless folly, and it helps explain why we're headed toward a record annual deficit of $1.65 trillion, according to the White House.
We saw this coming when those who were in charge shirked their responsibility to lead and refused to make a budget.
Now, instead of accepting the blame for their failure, Democrats are desperately pointing fingers. They're claiming that a government slowdown must be the fault of the millions of people who voted last November to end Washington's spending spree. Those voters gave the government a simple message: Live within your means and stop spending more than you take in. Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid and Washington's big-spending liberals think that idea is "extreme."
House Republicans are holding fast to the principles that the American people sent us here to defend: We must cut spending, and we must stop the use of taxpayer dollars for the liberals' social agenda. That's why Republicans, since being given the House majority, have worked for real spending cuts and for changes in policies that use your tax dollars for activities such as abortion.
But Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer and other Senate Democrats have made the political calculation to label those common sense principles "extreme." And if a government slowdown happens, it will be because President Obama and Senate Democrats are refusing to listen to the American people, just as they've done for the past two years.
Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., is a leader of the House's Tea Party Caucus.
(Originally Published by USAToday)
We saw this coming when those who were in charge shirked their responsibility to lead and refused to make a budget.
Now, instead of accepting the blame for their failure, Democrats are desperately pointing fingers. They're claiming that a government slowdown must be the fault of the millions of people who voted last November to end Washington's spending spree. Those voters gave the government a simple message: Live within your means and stop spending more than you take in. Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid and Washington's big-spending liberals think that idea is "extreme."
House Republicans are holding fast to the principles that the American people sent us here to defend: We must cut spending, and we must stop the use of taxpayer dollars for the liberals' social agenda. That's why Republicans, since being given the House majority, have worked for real spending cuts and for changes in policies that use your tax dollars for activities such as abortion.
But Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer and other Senate Democrats have made the political calculation to label those common sense principles "extreme." And if a government slowdown happens, it will be because President Obama and Senate Democrats are refusing to listen to the American people, just as they've done for the past two years.
Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., is a leader of the House's Tea Party Caucus.
(Originally Published by USAToday)
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