Alabama senator Jeff Sessions, the ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee, has deemed President Obama’s newly-released budget a “blueprint for losing the future” in a video response:
His Republican counterpart in the House, budget chair Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, echoes Sessions in a press release, saying the budget “spends too much, taxes too much, and borrows too much.” And it looks like the Republican leadership in the House agrees with Sessions and Ryan:
“The president’s budget will destroy jobs by spending too much, taxing too much, and borrowing too much,” Boehner said in a statement. “By continuing the spending binge and imposing massive tax hikes on families and small businesses, it will fuel more economic uncertainty and make it harder to create new jobs.”
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said that while Obama “has used tough rhetoric” on cutting unnecessary federal spending, his proposal today doesn’t do it.
Meanwhile, our own Fred Barnes calls the budget blueprint “pathetic” since Obama’s figure by which he plans to reduce federal spending, $1.1 trillion over the next ten years, is less than the $1.5 trillion deficit for a single year.
