Congress reaches a budget deal and conservatives already hate it

[LiberalElite]

Source: Mother Jones

Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) have spent the past several weeks huddled with their staffs in budget negotiations, and Tuesday evening they emerged with the impossible: a deal to keep the government open and avoid another shutdown when current funding expires next month. Their proposal will replace part of sequestration—the automatic cuts to domestic and military spending in the Budget Control Act that averted the 2011 debt-ceiling standoff—for the next two years. Domestic discretionary spending will be set at $1.012 trillion for fiscal year 2014, higher than the $967 billion called for by sequestration but far less than the $1.058 trillion Murray's original budget called for. That amounts to $63 billion in reductions for sequestration over the next two years, split between defense and other discretionary government programs. It's a positive, but small step, replacing about 33 percent of sequestration for the next two years and allowing agencies to reallocate the across-the-board cuts.

Read more: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/12/ryan-murray-budget-deal-congress-conservatives-revolt

[Drale]

1. If Paul Ryan's involved I'm 100% against it

because he should not be involved in anything with budget in the title.

[freshwest]

4. You'll have to talk to WI and the GOP about that. They insisted on it. Not us. No choice. n/t

[Thor_MN]

9. Don't worry, he will be against it too...

It's the GOP way, negotiate, then renege and ask for more tax cuts. When they don't get them, scream bloody murder and the liberals are trying to shut down the country.

[blkmusclmachine]

11. Conservatives are irrelevant.

[Liberal Veteran]

2. Because of course they do.

Fucking conservatives.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. I am really surprised that they were able to come to any sort of agreement...

And pleased.

K&R

[freshwest]

5. Glad to see the let up on the second part of the sequester and no safety net cuts. Murray did well.

[pangaia]

14. I was surprised, also.

At first I thought, maybe the less wacko repubs are finally getting something together and pushing back against the american taliban. The I saw Ryan's name. Whooppsie.. what's up with that?
What's really going on here?

[totodeinhere]

6. I don't care what the cons think about it but I hate it because it does not

extend unemployment benefits and it will cause federal employees and military personnel to chip in more toward their pension contributions when they have sacrificed too much already. And it only allows for moderate sequestration relief. According to HuffPost dozens of federal unions have signed on to a letter opposing it.

[olddad56]

7. The huff post has become the Faux News of the internet.

[totodeinhere]

10. Rather than attacking HuffPost why don't you address legitimate concerns about this

so-called "compromise?' What do you think about making this deal on the backs of federal workers? Myself I think it stinks.

[Tippy]

17. HP went that was a long time ago

[Doctor_J]

8. I can't believe that a majority of Dems will sign off on a budget from Paul Ryan.

"Across-the-board cuts" are NOT what are needed.

[Stuart G]

12. Please note: the new number 1.012 trillion is almost in the middle of the other two numbers..

It is as if they cut a deal...045 trillion above the 967 billion, and .046 trillion below Murray's original budget of 1.058 trillion. Do the
math. I don't like it. But, we will see.

[Cryptoad]

13. Tell the GOP

to kiss our ass, we dont have a spending problem! seems we are getting punked on this deal!

[on point]

15. Another wrong direction cave by dems

[malthaussen]

16. Just as long as it doesn't increase revenue...

... because that would be class war!

-- Mal