McKeon, Armed Services Panel Republicans Decry Cuts
House Armed Services Chairman Howard “Buck” McKeon decried the sequester spending cuts that will begin hitting the Pentagon on Friday, standing with a group of the panel’s subcommittee chairmen to demand replacement spending cuts.
“I have never in my lifetime seen such a lack of leadership and truth-telling emanating from the White House and from our commander in chief,” the California Republican said.
The group of GOP lawmakers said they are not willing to budge on President Barack Obama’s demand that any sequester replacement bill include tax increases as well as spending cuts.
“Most people understand what the real problem is: it’s the mandatory spending. And not bringing that into the discussion makes the rest of this kind of an exercise in futility,” McKeon said.
“It is not lost on people in Southeast Alabama that we do not have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem. And it’s very difficult to stomach the president’s scare tactics in order to raise taxes when you’re spending $2 billion a year on free cell phones,” added Rep. Martha Roby, R-Ala., the chairwoman of the committee’s oversight panel.
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