Is ANYBODY Surprised with this?
This Dog ain’t….
And I’ll tell ya what….
There isn’t gonna be across the board Budget cuts….
Nope….
Congress is just playing chicken with ITSELF…..
POLITICS….
The $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts over a decade, half of which would affect the Defense Department, are scheduled to begin in January 2013. At the same time, lawmakers must decide what to do about income tax cuts and other tax breaks scheduled to expire at the end of the year.
Leaders in both chambers are discussing whether to propose a catch-all bill that would delay the automatic cuts, fund the government through March or later and temporarily extend the George W. Bush-era tax cuts and other tax laws, said the House aide and industry officials, who asked to speak on condition of anonymity.
“It is being seriously considered as one of the options and there is no doubt about that,” Steve Bell, the senior director of the Economic Policy Project at the Bipartisan Policy Center, said in an interview.
The measure would follow a short-term stopgap spending bill to keep the government operating after Oct. 1, the people said.
The automatic cuts are required by the 2011 agreement to raise the U.S. debt limit. The cuts were designed to require Congress to find other deficit-reduction proposals to replace them. Lawmakers so far haven’t agreed on such a plan.
The second measure funding the government until March or later would carry the delay of the automatic spending cuts, according to the congressional aide and industry officials, who said they weren’t authorized to describe the option on the record…..
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Y R we not surprised?