On the road, Obama again warns of coming 'pain' without budget fix - First Read
As Republicans decry a White House "road show" and cabinet officials continue to sound the sequester alarm, President Barack Obama said Tuesday that - even if Congress gives him greater flexibility to target coming budget reductions - rapid cuts without new revenues will still inflict "pain" on the national economy.
"The problem is, when you're cutting 85 billion dollars in seven months, which represents over a 10 percent cut in the defense budget there's no smart way to do that," he said in a speech in the ship-building community of Newport News, Va.
Obama's address at a shipbuilding plant came hours after House Speaker John Boehner used blunt language to urge Senate action on a budget fix, saying the upper chamber's members should "get off their ass" to avert the sequester.
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As Republicans decry a White House "road show" and cabinet officials continue to sound the sequester alarm, President Barack Obama said Tuesday that - even if Congress gives him greater flexibility to target coming budget reductions - rapid cuts without new revenues will still inflict "pain" on the national economy.
"The problem is, when you're cutting 85 billion dollars in seven months, which represents over a 10 percent cut in the defense budget there's no smart way to do that," he said in a speech in the ship-building community of Newport News, Va.
Obama's address at a shipbuilding plant came hours after House Speaker John Boehner used blunt language to urge Senate action on a budget fix, saying the upper chamber's members should "get off their ass" to avert the sequester.
Only pain we have is Obama, he is running around with a stolen check book writing checks that bounce to the tune of 4 billion a month -
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