President Obama released his Fiscal Year 2015 budget blueprint on Tuesday, a plan which Democrats said would build on the debt ceiling compromise they made with Republicans last year.
“This budget adheres to the spending principles members of both Houses of Congress have already agreed to,” President Obama said on Tuesday.
But as budget analysts began digging into plan, it became abundantly clear that President Obama completely disregarded the spending limits Congress agreed to in a debt ceiling deal just ten weeks ago.
President Obama’s budget “lays waste to the spending caps that the White House and Congress agreed to late last year,” the Associated Press stated plainly.
“In the next year alone, the plan would increase spending by $56 billion above the statutory caps, and the total 10-year spending breach would be $791 billion — all funded by a massive proposed tax increase,” Fox News added.
So when Obama’s Budget Director Sylvia Burwell testified before the Senate Budget Committee Yesterday, Sen. Jeff Sessions, the ranking Republican on the panel, pressed her to admit that the Obama Administration is indeed shattering through the previously agreed upon spending caps.
“The question is, do you spend more than was agreed to in the spending limits of the Ryan-Murray bill?” Sessions asked.
But Burwell absolutely refused to directly answer the question for several minutes as Sessions asked her again and again.
“I will answer it,” an exasperated Sessions finally said. “The answer is that you’re asking us to raise the spending limits by changing the Ryan-Murray law so you can spend even more than you agreed to spend 10 weeks ago. This is the way a nation goes broke!”
Watch the video of the exchange above.
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