and our sequestration cuts were forcing our families and communities to pay the price. so i am very proud to stand here today with chairman ryan to announce we have broken through the partisanship and the gridlock and reached a bipartisan budget compromise that will prevent a government shutdown in january. our deal puts jobs and economic growth first by rolling back sequestration s harmful cuts to education and medical research and infrastructure investments and defense jobs for the next two years. now, i know there were some people who thought these cuts should continue, but i m glad we increased these key domestic investments and that we averted the next round of scheduled cuts to military programs, bases, and defense jobs in our country. this deal builds on the $2.5 trillion in deficit reduction we have done since 2011 and continues the precedent we set in the fiscal cliff deal that sequestration shouldn t be
extending tax cuts, um, for everyone but the wealthy top brackets, and so we had a fiscal cliff debate and fight on capitol hill where american taxpayers across the country paying their holiday bills were anxiously waiting to see what congress would do, and ultimately everyone but the top earners saw their tax cuts restored. and we went right into a debate about gun control and immigration reform. so it s true that the president has not talked about growth or the economy in a very long time. given this new data, though, and given the fact that we saw an anticipation of these sequestered cuts that the congress passed a long time ago and have the opportunity to undo but haven t yet and are set to go into effect on march 1, in anticipation of those cuts that really hit at defense spending we saw a big shrink in defense jobs, and that is going to continue, um, when we see the sequester go into effect in march. and it s going to hit domestic
war is not receding in the middle east. it is building to a kre skend oh. the elections are over. now america must act. what does america have to do? well, with syria, if the opposition will get its act together, and become unified, it seems to me that then we should surely support turkey s request for patriot missiles as defenses against any threat from syria. but also we then have to consider a no-fly zone, providing the opposition in syria comes together. but, again, all this goes looking for ways to keep the pressure on iran and to keep taking away from iran the kind of weaponry, both psychological and real, that they are using. i want to shift gears as we talk about your concern about our national security in the middle east. let s bring it back home, and the fiscal cliff talks that are going to begin this week. as chairman of the armed services committee, of course, all of these defense jobs that are imperiled by what s called
war is not receding in the middle east. it is building to a kre skend oh. the elections are over. now america must act. what does america have to do? well, with syria, if the opposition will get its act together, and become unified, it seems to me that then we should surely support turkey s request for patriot missiles as defenses against any threat from syria. but also we then have to consider a no-fly zone, providing the opposition in syria comes together. but, again, all this goes looking for ways to keep the pressure on iran and to keep taking away from iran the kind of weaponry, both psychological and real, that they are using. i want to shift gears as we talk about your concern about our national security in the middle east. let s bring it back home, and the fiscal cliff talks that are going to begin this week. as chairman of the armed services committee, of course, all of these defense jobs that are imperiled by what s called
let s bring it back home, and the fiscal cliff talks that are going to begin this week. as chairman of the armed services committee, of course, all of these defense jobs that are imperiled by what s called sequestration, meaning automatic spending cuts, half of which would come from defense, you re talking about $50 billion a year starting in january for 10 years unless this deal is averted. by the deal, i mean the automatic cuts that were agreed to to raise the debt ceiling before. if i have a defense job, how worried should i be? well, i think you should be worried if you have a defense job, but we all ought to be worried whether we are dependent upon other aspects of the federal budget. whether you re worried about the regulation of our food safety, whether you re worried about our borders being secure, whether we re worried about the fbi being supported. it s all affected by sequestration. the key here is whether or not the republicans will move away from the ideologically rigid