Republican spenders want to break the annual budget caps. The ObamaCare rollout has handed Republicans a remarkable gift, and they are now ahead in the polls for which party should run Congress. The main obstacle to GOP political gains in 2014 would be another stupid, futile budget standoff—and Republicans are just the party to try.
This
time the insurrection isn't coming from the Heritage Foundation-tea
party caucus, but from defense hawks and appropriators who want to break
the annual spending caps in current law. This would be another act of
political masochism, handing budget leverage to Senate Democrats and
frustrating the GOP's fiscal conservative base.
The
defense rebellion is led by Armed Services Chairman Buck McKeon,who wants Congress to cancel the $20 billion Pentagon spending
cut for fiscal 2014. Many of the 34 Republicans on his committee are
threatening to vote against a fiscal 2014 budget that keeps the caps and
automatic sequester in place.
Meanwhile, GOP House appropriators want to scrap discretionary budget
caps. In a recent letter to House colleagues, Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers of Kentucky and the 12 "cardinals" who chair subcommittees
complained that the 2014 sequester cuts "would result in more
indiscriminate across the board reductions that could have negative
consequences on critically important federal programs, especially our
national defense."
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