there was the issue of how to deal with spending cuts, more spending cuts that are due to kick in in the new year. one of the proposals, one of the provisions in her plan was to allow agencies to have more flexibility in how they adjust to across the board spending cuts from what we call the sequester. well, democrats had concerns that perhaps republicans who are very worried about defense cuts would end up supplementing substitu substituting, i should say, cuts to perhaps safety net programs, the democrats value. so at this point we re hearing that harry reid is talking to the senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, but we don t know what really will be yielded from that, though we re being told to be optimistic. however, this is up in the air and pretty much a mess. harry reid looked downright depressed, despite the cordial discussion with mitch mcconnell, he said, but it does not look well.
are we spending that money. okay. do a deal. i want you two you two live up to your promise. i want to see a deal done. what is a deal between a sensible republican and a sensible democrat, where is the point where you think this could be honorably settled? i ll throw it out. i think we can both agree we haven t it doesn t make sense to pass a cr with this with the arbitrary across the board spending cuts included in the sequester, that we need more targeted spending cuts and more precision like in the spending cuts we make. that to me should be a basis for agreement. i talk to republicans and democrats who both agree. it might be harder to agree on spending levels and what we cut and spend more money on but i don t think anybody is happy with the across the board spending cuts in the sequester that we agreed to, by the way, the republican number, even
the arbitrary across the board spending cuts included in the sequester, that we need more targeted spending cuts and more precision like in the spending cuts we make. that to me should be a basis for agreement. i talk to republicans and democrats who both agree. it might be harder to agree on spending levels and what we cut and spend more money on but i don t think anybody is happy with the across the board spending cuts in the sequester that we agreed to, by the way, the republican number, even though we oppose it to get past the government being closed. marsha, sounds reasonable to me. well, in the president s words, those sequester levels would be settled to law and those would be numbers that we would agree to. now what we have to do is look at that ten-year window, or even the one-year window that a
the arbitrary across the board spending cuts included in the sequester, that we need more targeted spending cuts and more precision like in the spending cuts we make. that to me should be a basis for agreement. i talk to republicans and democrats who both agree. it might be harder to agree on spending levels and what we cut and spend more money on but i don t think anybody is happy with the across the board spending cuts in the sequester that we agreed to, by the way, the republican number, even though we oppose it to get past the government being closed. marsha, sounds reasonable to me. well, in the president s words, those sequester levels would be settled to law and those would be numbers that we would agree to. now what we have to do is look at that ten-year window, or even the one-year window that a
that across the board spending cuts through sequestration and democrats don t want this number but said we need to fund the government and move on from this and boehner is not taking them up on the opportunity to bring this to a vote where he has the votes to stop these 30 or some rens from basically setting an untenable precedent. this is not how legislation continues to happen for us to be the strong. and the house passed bills and sent it to the senate and harry reid sits on it and nothing ever hatches over there. like a henon eggs. matt, i am trying to figure out. some sent over today and government workers on furlough ought to go home and watch tv and play chess. that is not reasoning together. the president set the tone on this one when he said he would not negotiate on the debt ceiling as if that is his call