{"id":37545,"date":"2013-06-05T10:23:33","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T16:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/05\/just-in-case-youd-forgotten-about-the-budget-crisis.html"},"modified":"2013-06-07T08:26:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T14:26:30","slug":"just-in-case-youd-forgotten-about-the-budget-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/05\/just-in-case-youd-forgotten-about-the-budget-crisis.html","title":{"rendered":"Just in case you’d forgotten about the budget crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"
Now the GOP is picking their favorite "can't veto" departments to fund at pre-sequestration levels, so that they can then "justify" slashing money from everything else on the basis of the sequestration levels being the new law of the land.<\/p>\n

Will Obama stick by his threat to veto these piecemeal budgets? \u00a0I wouldn't count on it.<\/p><\/div>\n

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House Republicans Quietly Return To Budget Stand-Off Mode, Renew Risk Of Government Shutdown<\/a>
\n On Monday afternoon, House Republicans quietly retreated toward the stand-off driven approach to budgeting and must-pass legislation that was their hallmark before President Obama\u2019s re-election.\n <\/p>\n

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Now the GOP is picking their favorite "can't veto" departments to fund at pre-sequestration levels, so that they can then "justify" slashing money from everything else on the basis of the sequestration levels being the new law of the land. Will Obama stick by his threat to veto these piecemeal budgets? \u00a0I wouldn't count on … Continue reading “Just in case you’d forgotten about the budget crisis”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,358,376],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-poor-citizenship","category-taxing-spending"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32584,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/22\/sequestration-costs-and-arm-and-a-leg.html","url_meta":{"origin":37545,"position":0},"title":"Sequestration costs and arm and a leg","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 22-Feb-13 4:02pm","format":false,"excerpt":"PhD (http:\/\/www.phdcomics.com\/comics.php?f=1561) explains Sequestration and what it means -- especially to national spending on research.\u00a0Remember that when folks start talking about how cool it is that we'll be putting the screws to welfare queens and petty bureaucrats.(h\/t +Dan Eastwood) View this post on Google+","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":29937,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/23\/he-was-for-the-sequestration-before-he-was-against-it.html","url_meta":{"origin":37545,"position":1},"title":"He was for the sequestration before he was against it","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 23-Aug-12 7:38pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Ryan is taking a page from his running mate by arguing against something he previously favored, though he's not subtle enough to get the whole time shift thing straight. 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