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Subscribe to RSSPresident Barack Obama said if congressional negotiators cannot draft a full budget by March 1, they should at least come up with a short-term combination of spending cuts and revenue increases in order to stave off deep federal spending cuts scheduled for that date.
"If Congress can't act immediately on a bigger package, if they can't get a bigger package done by the time the sequester is scheduled to go into effect," Obama said, "then I believe that they should at least pass a smaller package of spending cuts and tax reforms that would delay the economically damaging effects of the sequester for a few more months until Congress finds a way to replace these cuts with a smarter solution."
Charles Dharapak / AP
President Barack Obama turns towards cameramen and reacts to a sound as he speaks in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013.
The sequester, reached as part of 2011 budget negotiations, was never actually supposed to take effect. Rather, its deep cuts, including almost $500 billion in defense spending over nine years, were put in place as a trigger to get Congress to agree to more comprehensive budget and tax reform.
House Speaker John Boehner released a written statement before Obama’s remarks, blaming the president for the sequester and saying he would not support any additional revenue increases.
“President Obama first proposed the sequester and insisted it become law,” Boehner said, adding, “We believe there is a better way to reduce the deficit, but Americans do not support sacrificing real spending cuts for more tax hikes."
In recent weeks, members of Congress appeared to be playing rhetorical chicken over the cuts, with some suggesting they were resigned to the across-the-board cuts.
“I think it’s more likely to happen,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) was quoted as saying by the Washington Post last week.
But the White House has stood firm on the self-imposed cuts, with White House Press Secretary Jay Carney underscoring Friday that the sequester was always intended to be replaced.
“The negative consequences of implementation would be bad across the board," Carney said. "That's the point. So Congress needs to do its job."
And the president hinted that revenues would remain central to all budget negotiations, telling CBS in a Sunday interview that “there is no doubt we need additional revenue coupled with smart spending reductions in order to bring down our deficit."
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The President, in accordance with to the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921, must submit a budget to Congress each year. In its current form, federal budget legislation law (31 U.S.C. 1105(a)) specifies that the President submit a budget between the first Monday in January and the first Monday in February.
Now Mr Tyrannical Constitution Abolishing President....Do your F'N Job!!!!!
Stop blaming the Congress for the fact (to my knowledge) that you haven't submitted a budget in your entire time in office. Just like the majority of Dems out there....need someone else to handle your business for you.
He submitted 2 bugits to the senate which evan the dems would not vote on. BUT, both of those were late.
The President has submitted a budget every year he's been in office.
"The administration has been signaling that the annual spending blueprint wouldn’t meet the deadline because of the protracted debate in Washington over taxes, spending and the deficit, especially the dispute at year’s end that focused on tax rates."
Congress is holding up the budget process once again.
Yes blame congress. My 5 yr old neice could have proposed the same budgets as Obama and recieved the same feed back from both parties. A BIG FAT NO!
#119.5
Obama: "I won the election", "we need more money", "Time for the wealthy to pay their fare share", "I'm the boss"...
Oh, yay. Another "time out" for our elected officials. Now go put your nose in the corner and think about what you've done. Or just pick your nose. Or contemplate your next tantrum/plot to rule the world!!
I wish I could get a time out at work... If only not making a decision would get me a long weekend or a trip to Hawaii!
If only...
Congressional consideration of the federal budget begins once the President of the United States submits a budget request, which is formulated over a period of months with the assistance of the Office of Management and Budget, the largest office within the Executive Office of the President. The budget request includes funding requests for all federal executive departments and independent agencies.
The President submits the budget request each year to Congress for the following fiscal year, as required by the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921. Current law (31 U.S.C. 1105(a))[4] requires the President to submit a budget no earlier than the first Monday in January, and no later than the first Monday in February. Typically, Presidents submit budgets on the first Monday in February.
The President's budget request constitutes an extensive proposal of the administration's intended spending and revenue plans for the following fiscal year. The budget proposal includes volumes of supporting information intended to persuade Congress of the necessity and value of the budget provisions. In addition, each federal executive department and independent agency provides additional detail and supporting documentation to Congress on its own funding requests.
nutman22----And none of that has been done in nearly or over 4 years. Obama's budgets have all but failed when they walked it over from the White House and the Democrats in Congress just don't care. Harry Reid says he doesn't need a budget. So just who enforces the laws of the president and the congress? Why were the Republicans held to the time and date when the budgets were due? The House has submitted a budget every year only to sit on Harry Reid's desk, never looked at.
So the problems are the people and that are not doing their jobs. That would be the president and the senate that are controlled by the democrats. This is freaking nuts!!
For all you liberals that don't think government spending is out of control, please explain in detail how you can spend your way out of debt? And if you do it with your personal finances then you can certainly include that in your reply. Everything I've ever been taught boils down to this: you can't have more going out than you have coming in so please tell us how you make this strategy work.
Well, I don't know about you, but MY budget depends on INCOME. The country has an INCOME problem cause no one has enough to fund the government. You could cut evrything and pay off the debt tomorrow, but if that is all you did, our economy would still be going bust. The spending is a problem, but it has also been a savior, stopping us from amuch deeper depression
And the government can't be funded because the spending is out of control!!!!
It can't be funded because not enough people are making enough income for the income tax....We have an INCOME problem, and that can't be fixed just by cutting as it doesn't address the real problem
Well Ed
Kind of simple
Less money coming in
Spend less
Good start till you get more income Right.
Not making enough money to pay taxes....
Wow Ed just wow. That was F*****G deep bro!
Illegal aliens (cough MEXICANS cough) cost 20-100 times as much as they contribute (schools, welfare, foodstamps, medical care, prisons...). Fix that problem and you could save 100 billion annually, the MAJORITY OF THIS would be CUTTING.
Flat tax. Everybody pays 20%. When 47% of the population doesn't pay taxes and half of them get back more than they pay.... there is DEFINATELY a problem.
Then we have silly things like GM, Solyndra.... and the banking and housing fiasco that could have all been handled different....
We don't have an income problem. We have a liberal and democrat policy problem.
Ok DrAlchemy Can't comment without making fun of someone's opinions and using abusinve language??..YOU are the latest succuming to the ignore button YEAH!! I will see your drivel no more BYE BYE ....LOL
OH no he put me on ignore! I'm MELLLTTTTIIINNNNNGGGGGG! OH what a world.
Yes by all means put me on ignore. It's easier to ignore the truth and bury your head in the sand.
The names appear, the drivel doesn't YEAH!!!
If you disagree with Ed he puts you on ignore. Kind of like the little kid in the sandbox that gets mad and says "I'm going to take my toys and go home, I don't like you no more" Pretty soon the only posts Ed will see are his own.
More names, more Author Ignored..Hey, this site is finally getting interesting and civil LOL LOL
He's worse than cartman. You don't even have to call him a fata$$ and he's saying "screw you guys i'm goin home".
Even better is how he finishes everything with LOL LOL. Atleast he is laughing twice as hard cuz nobody else is laughing at all.
Well people if this country doesn't get people back to work we will never get out of anything. The Obama administration and the Democrats have seen their way clear to make business to withdraw from expansion or giving people raises. That's not the answer. We have seen that at work for the past 4 years and we are deeper in debt. How about turn the businesses lose and let them do what they do best go back to work.
The Temptations had it right along time back. "The politicians say more taxes will solve everything and the band played on". More taxes will not solve anything. WE NEED JOBS!!!!
I like that Ed Cartman
Let's outsource our Congress and president with a contractor, and let the current group take a long needed vacation with no pay. What say you, America?
Hell, I'd even be more confident if we outsource Congress to India at this point!
I'm in.
But then I was for that in the last election.
A small majority of the rest of America didn't think it was a good idea.
So here we are.
And the beat goes on! ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZQ5TH86fm8 => Obama Ring Of Fire.
UDunnoBro---You have to send Obama with Congress. That's the only way it will work.
Sequestration would cost thousands of jobs. Just what the economy needs right now, more unemployment.
UDunnoBro----Obama has caused more lose of jobs over the past 4 years then they have created. What's up with that?? Obama and the Democrats have been holding back the businesses in this country and eliminated more jobs than they created. The freaking crack pots are going in the wrong directionand have been under Obama's time in office.
He has to get more taxes so he can continue his Fantasy Land living in the White House at our expense.
He will do whatever it takes to keep that bloated cow, MOOOOCHELLE, blinging and living hood rich.
Screw all this $hit and get it done you F*cking Lazy A$s MF'ers
Need to make cuts! After four years Obama is just now figuring that out? But then of course its always someone elses fault.
The news media is destroying the United States by allowing Obama to ignore common sense budgeting. Obama should be run out of office like - Mubarak, Assad, Quadaffi! The US doesn't need a dictator who attacks the freedom of the people and destroys the economy! The US looks like Egypt, Syrian and Libya - thanks to the corrupt Democrat from Illinois!
Ya, ok sure, whatever LOL LOL
It's all you can do is laugh at these trolls, Ed. Ever since Reince gave them a 100% pay raise to post their diatribe on all the discussion pages it's just a troll frickin' mania. Yep, that's right, Reince is the man.
I don't really want to post such replies, but when such nonsense is posted, I just can't help myself LOL
Ed-1360258----So Ed you are above all of this? A Obama Fan to the end? Maybe you like the idea of your children having to pay for all of this non sense when they get to a working age? Damn, the taxes they are going to pay are already spent. Baby, you need to wake up. Your looking at this the wrong way.
What's the matter, Weinberg? Your bosses won't let you use the word "TAX"??
Obama calls for at least short-term fix with cuts, revenue to avoid sequester.
In English that democrats can understand: Obama calls for a short term bandaid approach because he has no long term solutions.
Good job BARRY! Put a hello kitty bandage on a gushing artery and don't forget to APPLY PRESSURE! Your fellow idiots have your back!
It's up to Congress to figure it out. They're required to by the Constitution.
congress has to force it because the president is soft on fiscal responsibility.
I agree it is up to congress. Quite sad that in 4 years Obama never had a budget proposal that wasn't shot down by nearly EVERY DEMOCRAT and REPUBLICAN.
What isn't required by the constitution is to put all of the blame squarely on ONE PARTIES shoulders.
The dems promised the minorities and other idiots of the masses everything they could ever dream of, for free.
If the republicans raise taxes, the makers are mad. If the republicans cut funding, the takers are mad. And no matter what happens the republicans get the blame. It's great strategy if you're a brain dead douchebag who can't provide for themself or their families and voted Obama.
NEWS FLASH:
Tom-73 The president does not have the power of the purse. THAT authority is Congresses and Congresses alone. But the president has the authority to stop a Congress from budgeting the economy into oblivion, and that is called the veto.
Like it, or not, our constitution was set up this way so the Executive branch and the Legislative branch would HAVE TO WORK TOGETHER!
The President's proposal never gets an up or down vote. What has been happening is that Republicans in the House take the proposal and modify it while still calling it "Obama's" budget.
They know Republicans will never vote for anything Obama and the Democrats won't vote for a Republican tweaked bill, so it dies.
"Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Miss., introduced a budget amendment representing the president’s budget request; the Sessions amendment was voted down 99-0."
“I think it’s readily apparent there is a big difference between the president’s budget, which I hold in my hands, and what Sen. Sessions has presented as being the president’s budget. This is not the president’s budget. So, of course, we’re not going to support it. It’s not what the president proposed.”
The White House official said the Sessions and Mulvaney’s bills were mere GOP stunts to get Democrats on record opposing ‘the President’s budget’” as well as distracting from what the House Republican budget would do, which the official described as “protect(ing) massive tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires while making the middle class and seniors pay.”
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/house-and-senate-unanimously-reject-obama-budgets-or-do-they/
So where is Obama's "work", David?
Press conferences, gun control, campaigning? Or just making sure his disgusting wife costs the tax payers more money than the previous 3 1st ladies combined?
reelect obama 2012- sir please obama's 2012 budget proposal did not get one, not one vote in the senate.
as for obama's role in the budget process only being the option to veto, while technically correct that's not the whole story. as the head of the democrat party it is his job to meet with those leaders and determine their approach, what to get what to give etc.
The example I posted was the 2012 budget proposal that you mention. It was Jeff Session's bill that received no votes.
As for the President's role, He is also the head of the Executive branch, which is separate and co-equal to the Legislative. Reid is fully independent and free to do what he wants to under the separation of powers.
if you believe obama's budget really would have gotten a vote you are a partisan. if this bill had been submitted instead of that bill please reid runs the senate they vote on the bills he allows period. this inside baseball who's on first what's on second stuff is politics and not worthy of the fiscal challenges we face.
Re-Elect Obama 2012---Maybe you should get in touch with Harry Reid and ask him where are the budgets for the last 4 years!!! In the Congress the Senate is sitting on everything and not doing anything at all. If you want to play the blame game you better start with Harry Reid.
Those House bills were DOA in the Senate and Boehner knew it.
Reid is right not to bring those bills to a vote, they're not good for the country.
patrick 93 claims to be an independent but unlike those that fall for political rope a dope, that's where they play the voter for a dope, i watch what people do not what they say. patrick took exception to something i posted so his response was that i was ignorant, well sir if it posts like a democrat, i.e. resorts to insult when substance fails, it's probably a democrat. it really doesn't matter it's like your mother said cursing and insults are used by those that really don't have anything else to say.
How do you like the way the media has Obama "Calling" for Gun control, Budget, and giving illegals a free pass, etc... Well how about calling for a recall vote?
With that said what got done today on the budget and debt ceiling other than him setting the stage to once again kick the can?
thats all obama can do..we should call him the bandaid president..
for crimney sake do your job you tool.....
OR QUIT...
BULLSH!T!!! You don't pass a budget (which the Democratic controlled Senate has not done in YEARS), all Congressmen, POTUS the PUTZ and the rest of these moron politicians don't get paid.
That should shrink the government spending down enough so that we would not have to worry the elderly, servicemen and women and even the vuhnebles.
Here we go again. We have seen this for the past 4 years and we will see it for the next 4 years. Obama and the Democrats have to get off their high horse and sit down and figure out what new programs they have to cut. After all it is them that have kept the spending over the top for the last 4 years.
We have seen no movement on the jobs front and the economy. All we have seen is Obama and the Democrats creating new ways to stop businesses from expanding. There is a lot of money sitting on the side lines because these people, like us, have no idea what anything is going to cost us next week. Gas of all things has gone up again and that means everything else will be going up. Groceries have gone up and never came down since the last time this game was played. Obama-Care with all the good stuff we were told about has still got businesses wondering what all this will cost them. So the question remains open.
If you have been to the Doctor any time this year you will find that cost there too has gone up. The price for the drugs we use and need have gone up or have been kicked of any prescription plan you might have. The FDA has made it even harder for people that need pain medication to get what they need. If they keep this up the only ones that will have any kind of pain medication will be the criminals. Something needs to be done. Obama and the Democrats have been doing noting but creating new programs for anything.
Gun control needs to take a back seat to all of this. We have more problems than we need and most were created within the last 4 years. Now we are stuck with that fool in the White House for 4 more years. Well done your Emperor has arrived and has invade everyone's life for the worse.
Gun control is a very pretty smoke screen. It will stay on the front lines as long as Obama can't effectively organize the future.
Once a failed organizer, always a failed organizer. You can take the monkey out of the jungle...
Wow, 'dr', how does it feel to be so completely uninformed about every issue, and be a racist to boot?
Everything you've posted on this page is nothing more than conservative blogoshpere spew, completely unsupported by any fact or logical argument. I had surmised as much, but now you've gone ahead and confirmed it.
...kick this can still further down the road and perhaps no one will notice when nothing gets done!
All Obama has to do is get his party to vote in the Republicans' budget, then sign it. Can't get cooperation? If they disagree with their President, then obviously they are a threat to the nation's security (per the latest whitepaper), so call in the drones!
"Short Term", my ass.
Just wait for the LONG TERM when Obamacare kills us all!!!
Sad...............
Family of 5 making OVER 80K pays 20K for their care. Look it up.
Under 80K and you start saving. If the idiots do that math incorrectly in would be smart to take a pay CUT.
Welcome to the new normal.
But again we tried to tell them. They have 700 days and each day will be another one where they go "Oh S H I T !"
no kidding...obama has shattered every record for the worst president in history,,and he still has 3 more years..
hhahahahahahahahahah
what a lazy do nothing coat tail pretend president..
WORST IN HISTORY....bar none
Hey Obama - do your damn job! Get off the Bill of Rights burning tour.
Feisty - you are a traitor.
feisty is a man..
and a traitor
Does feisty work for NBC or does NBC send their political stories directly to the Dem National Party for comment before anyone else gets to read it? How is feisty always first?
It works for NBC.
"A home WITHOUT a father is more dangerous than a home WITH a gun"......Bernie-1722829
Typical Obama. Say one thing and do another. What a loser period!