White House vows veto if GOP spending bill undermines national priorities

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White House vows veto if GOP spending bill undermines national priorities

Jed Lewison

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The veto threat came in a State of Administration Policy on H.R. 1, the spending bill currently before the House. The full text is below (emphasis in original):

The Administration strongly opposes House passage of H.R. 1, making appropriations for the Department of Defense and the other departments and agencies of the Government for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2011, and for other purposes. The Administration is committed to cutting spending and reducing the deficit so that current government spending does not add to the debt and has put forward a plan to do just that. However, the Administration does not support deep cuts that will undermine our ability to out-educate, out-build, and out-innovate the rest of the world. The bill proposes cuts that would sharply undermine core government functions and investments key to economic growth and job creation, and would reduce funding for the Department of Defense to a level that would leave the Department without the resources and flexibility needed to meet vital military requirements. If the President is presented with a bill that undermines critical priorities or national security through funding levels or restrictions, contains earmarks, or curtails the drivers of long-term economic growth and job creation while continuing to burden future generations with deficits, the President will veto the bill. The Administration looks forward to working with the Congress to refine the legislation to allow critical government functions to operate without interruption for the remainder of the fiscal year underway.

Even if the House does pass the legislation as is, it is extremely unlikely that it would ever get to the President's desk, because it would also have to pass the Senate, where Majority Leader Reid has also blasted the GOP's plan as irresponsible.

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[babylonsister]

1. Good! nt

[Dokkie]

2. omg

Thats a whole lot of donation hearts you have there. My hats off to you, good job

[COLGATE4]

3. SUUUURE they will...

[indepat]

4. It's high time for the pubs to have been made to shake in their boots

;)

[sofa king]

5. This is even better than I thought it would be.

To review: NO REPUBLICAN LEGISLATION WILL PASS IN CONGRESS without the approval of the Democratically-controlled Senate.

But we get to let the GOP wave their crap bills around, pissing off seven out of every ten voters, and then the Senate gets to smack them straight into the dirt whenever the timing produces the most beneficial result... for us.

At every step, the Republicans are further marginalized, while the Dems in the Senate get to soak up the glory as the protectors of all that is decent and good and the President gets to hover over it all and shake his head, saying, "sure would be nice if we controlled the House, too."

Toss in the fact that half the Republican party can't get Facebook because the Borders shut down, and 2012 is going to lock up Congress for the Democrats for the foreseeable future. The Republican Presidential candidate will be giving his (or, FSM help us, her) concession speech in prime time.