Cantor: GOP looking at cutting budget for White House

[babylonsister]

Cantor: GOP looking at cutting budget for White House
By Michael O'Brien - 09/28/10 05:40 AM ET


Republicans in Congress might move to slash the White House budget if they win back control of the House, Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) suggested Monday.

Cantor, the second-ranking House Republican who would likely become majority leader under a GOP-controlled House, said that a new majority might axe White House and congressional salaries and budgets as part of cost-saving reforms.

"We're also looking at cutting into, seriously, the budgets in the White House and Congress," Cantor said Monday evening on CNBC. "The executive wing of the White House, the West Wing, the salaries there, over the the last year, have gone up just $4 million."

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A move to cut the White House budget, though, might be seen as a particularly direct shot by a newfound GOP majority against the Obama administration.

Cantor touted the idea as just one example of the specific proposals Republicans have to cut the deficit under the "Pledge for America" agenda that House Republicans released last week.

more...

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/121233-cantor-gop-looking-at-cutting-budget-for-white-house

[zipplewrath]

1. Great

$4 million in salary cuts, 1.6 trillion in tax cuts for the rich. Yeah, that's balancing the budget.

[emulatorloo]

3. More brilliant Republican Math.

If these nuts win we are screwed.

[bluestateguy]

2. As I recall Obama ordered a pay freeze for all WH Staff making over $100,000

So below that you are really eating into the salaries of working people.

Are they going to cut the pay of a dishwasher who works in the kitchen?

[young but wise]

7. I wouldn't put anything pass Repubs because they are nuts.

[Cosmocat]

19. Sure, and when the butthats had the majority ...

when Bushco was president, they really cut into the white house budget then, right?

[Gman]

4. Again, how much more do people need to see before they go to the polls

and vote? Is this what they want? They would basically throw away their vote from 08 too.

[AlinPA]

12. Maybe they need to see Eric Cantor and Sharon Angle and slime like that in a leadership role,

and then they would wake up.

[Gman]

16. They would just wallow more in their own misery

and blame Obama and everyone else because they themselves failed to follow through from 08 to 10.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

5. Let me guess they'll cut his secret service protection to 2 dudes with walkie talkies. nt

[rurallib]

10. first thought I had also.

With threats quintupled. Now that's reform that Repugs can believe in.

[JustAnotherGen]

28. My first thought too

[Parker CA]

6. These fools are such f-ing idiots. Never ceases to amaze. Mega fail constantly. nt

[librechik]

8. talk about measuring for curtains...could they at least wait til 2011?

[jaxx]

9. They're looking to run the Black man out of the White House.

How much plainer does it need to be?

[GSLevel9]

14. yup...

(subliminal message) "and while you're at it boy... move y'all self and yer family back to the servants quarters..."

[EC]

11. Might be seen as a slam at administration?

How about it is a slam? They wouldn't dream of doing this if it were a repub in office...it's meant as disrespect...a way to cheapen the POTUS...

[otohara]

25. Absolutely

they do nothing with any honorable intention.

[catgirl]

13. I can't stand that guy

Creepy.

[maxrandb]

15. Unfortunately, some of the "masses" eat this shit up

"Look! Look at us! We're punishing the 'elites'"!!

Cutting $4 Million out of $13 trillion is like removing a grain of sand from the Mojave Desert, but it doesn't matter. All people will hear is "we're cutting White House Staff", and they'll be convinced that Repubs give a shit about the deficit.

Think about it. That shit worked back in 1994...right up until they started closing national parks and skipping Social Security payments. When people actually started to feel the "small government" impacts, the rubes got butchered. All Repubs need to do is "pretend" they are "tough" on Washington until 2 November 2010.

[OhioBlue]

17. so in year 2 of the Obama admin, salaries went up $4mil

how much of that is due to filling positions that weren't filled in the first year, I wonder? What is the comparison to the Bush WH?

[Unvanguard]

18. That's pennies compared to the size of the federal budget.

This is politically-motivated posturing and nothing more.

[Supersedeas]

20. Image a Dem trying to cut the budget to the War President's (Dimson's) budget

[TwilightGardener]

26. Unthinkable, no?

[BeyondGeography]

21. De-fund, demoralize, destroy

[KBlagburn]

22. October 18, 2010 White House releases 2010 salary report,

http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/06/white-house-releases-2010-salary-report-showing-budget-increase-of-4-5-million-over-final-year-of-bush-administration/

In the 2010 report, the lowest salary for a full-time employee is $37,826 for a records management analyst. In 2008, it was $33,400 for a staff assistant. In fact, in the Obama White House, only two full-time staffers make below $40,000, and they’re just shy of $38K.

Compare that to the Bush White House, where a total of 85 staffers in 2008 made below $38,000.

[Mass]

23. OMG, they rose low salaries. Only freepers would consider this bad.\nt

[Supersedeas]

24. cutting the budget for the Commander in Chief while the nation is at war--image the Media outcry if

Dems had proposed something like this during the Bushler Admin. The Networks would have been calling for the heads of the treasonous bastards. Today, not so much as a peep, from the same group that lead the nations with the drums of war leading to IRAQ. Our National Airways have been coopted by Right Wing Thugs.

[rasputin1952]

27. Cantor is an asshole...

and the R's ain't gonna win the House back...he can spend $2.50 on a crying towel.