McConnell not sure if budget ‘sequester’ survives this year

Published February 16, 2017 12:28pm ET



Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says the Budget Control Act, which imposed spending caps that both parties have complained about, may not survive the 115th Congress.

In a Wednesday interview with the Washington Examiner, McConnell said lawmakers are in talks to increase defense spending, a move that would bust budget caps imposed by the 2011 law and lead to demands by Democrats to increase domestic spending as well.

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