Sequester Numbers News Today

As ive said on this program repeatedly, these people are on a mission to discredit this president. they are on a mission to make sure that this default happens on his watch. the bill is there. the clean bill is there. all they have to do is vote on it in the house and boehner cant do that. so now were at a point, were supposed to believe that mitch mcconnell and harry reid are so close to a deal. whose numbers are we using? are we using sequester numbers, numbers worse than that? and how long is...

Issue. >> dont you think its a little hypocritical though when the ryan budget, i can give you numbers, does decimate programs that were to keep veterans off the street, help them. decimated those programs a few months ago and making those votes and now demagoguing the issue. >> the sequester was president obamas idea. the sequester is having a worse effect on defense and veterans than anything this paul ryan budget that has not been implemented has suggested. >> was the sequester actually suppo...

That? >> please educate tom. >> first of all, the number were talking about, the spending levels was negotiated in 2001. this is agreed upon, because i think on all of our sides, we agree that $17 trillion is just a little high debt to have. we need to start bringing spending down. so he didnt really -- >> really? >> its been stuck at 16.7. >> the deficit has been coming down for a number of reasons. >> we have a $16.7 trillion debt right now, so yes, hes gone along with though from 2011, but be...

Schultz wants the to see this happen. we get -- we open up this government and then we sit and talk. >> yeah. and congresswoman wasserman-schultz, why doesnt john boehner do this? i cant get an answer from anybody. why doesnt he just bring it to the floor? where is the loss for them, because theyre playing with sequester numbers. they can always come back and fight another day. they have chosen to hurt americans, to get -- to make a point. thats the key here. why wont he bring it to the floor fo...

Having a worse effect on defense and veterans than anything, the paul ryan budget has suggested. >> was the sequester actually supposed to be implemented? >> it was agreed upon to have both sides disliked, and now its a republican cr that accepts those sequester numbers, which is bad for defense, particularly in a state like mine of virginia, but the democratic number is 1056. the reps are at 988. we have accepted that number, which you yourself agreed is bad for our defense, so the republicans ...

I senate i think is going to pass it hopefully late tonight. well send it over to us and i expect us to pass it on thursday. the senate passed version is better than the house version. its not a good version. we should substitute as both the murray budget does and the van holland budget does, substitute for the sequester, not adopt the sequester numbers. sequester as i say starts with s, which stands for stupid. its an irrational way to reduce government spending, we need to reduce spending. we ...

And the net increase is more than the sequester cut, and i can do this with a lot of boards and chalkboard better than i can talking about it, but if you have an increase in the money, minus the 85 billion tkpwhrar dollars that was supposedly cut from the across the board sequester there will be a lot of republicans, especially in the house who are very upset. jon: thinking about it, i mean the sequester numbers $85 billion that is less than one tenth of the stimulus program passed four years ag...

A badge of honor. here is some of the tea party types we found today, just today, michael, who are backing the cuts. ohio congressman jim jordan said back in october, quote, i would say the only thing thats worse than cutting national defense is not having any scheduled cuts in place at all. louisiana congressman steve scalise told "dow jones business news," quote, the consensus is we want the sequester numbers to come in and finally reduce spending in washington. south carolina congressman mike...

Not having any scheduled cuts in place at all. louisiana congressman steve scalise told "dow jones business news," quote, the consensus is we want the sequester numbers to come in and finally reduce spending in washington. south carolina congressman mike mulvaney said we want to keep the sequester in place and take the cuts we can get. georgia congressman paul broun, i want to see it go into place. and rand paul in his tea party response to the state of the union said, not only should the seques...

Scalise told dow jones business news, quote, the con shen sus is we want the sequester numbers to come in and finally dereduced spending in washington. south carolina congressman mike mull vain yea said we want to keep the sequester in place and take the cuts we can get. georgia congressman paul br oun, i want to see it go into place and rand paul in his tea party response to the state of the union said not only should the sequester stand, many pundits say the sequester really needs to be at lea...