Some members are already calling for another budget deal to allow Congress to exceed discretionary spending caps currently set in law.
Discretionary spending is money controlled through the annual appropriations process in Congress.
Congress has enacted three consecutive deals to raise these spending caps.
In each of these deals, Democrats in Congress held defense spending increases hostage for increases in domestic spending.
As long as Congressional Democrats insist on demanding more social spending in exchange for continuing to fund defense spending, expanding the use of OCO funds remains the administration's only fiscally responsible option in meeting national security needs while avoiding yet another increase to the spending caps.
The president came to Washington with a sound understanding of desperate spending problem in Washington.
It is time for Congress to join the president in his commitment to cutting spending, reducing bloated deficits, and getting our national debt under control.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/02/25/congress_must_join_the_president_in_cutting_spending_139568.html
Discretionary spending is money controlled through the annual appropriations process in Congress.
Congress has enacted three consecutive deals to raise these spending caps.
In each of these deals, Democrats in Congress held defense spending increases hostage for increases in domestic spending.
As long as Congressional Democrats insist on demanding more social spending in exchange for continuing to fund defense spending, expanding the use of OCO funds remains the administration's only fiscally responsible option in meeting national security needs while avoiding yet another increase to the spending caps.
The president came to Washington with a sound understanding of desperate spending problem in Washington.
It is time for Congress to join the president in his commitment to cutting spending, reducing bloated deficits, and getting our national debt under control.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/02/25/congress_must_join_the_president_in_cutting_spending_139568.html
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