Budget deal reduces spending and rolls back baseline for future years

WASHINGTON - APRIL 5: Speaker of the House Re...Image by Getty Images via @daylife
NY Times:

The nation's lawmakers reached a last-minute budget deal Friday night, averting a government shutdown just minutes before crossing a deadline that would have shuttered federal facilities and forced hundreds of thousands of workers to be furloughed without pay, House Speaker John A. Boehner said.

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A Democratic source said negotiators had agreed to spending cuts totaling $38.5 billion and had resolved differences in funding for groups like Planned Parenthood that had been holding up a deal for days.

Mr. Boehner said the two sides had agreed to a six-day "bridge" extension of the government's spending authority in order to turn the agreement's framework into legislation that will fund federal operations through the end of the 2011 fiscal year in September. He said the final vote on the package would take place in the middle of next week.

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There will be a separate vote on the Planned UnParenthood funding apart from the budget. Democrats probably feel like they can defeat that in the Senate, although the abortion issue could be a problem for some with races in 2012.  The Democrats fraudulently tried to frame the UnParenthood issue as one of women's health.  That is a completely bogus position.  I don't know of any women who go to Planned UnParenthood instead of their doctor when they have a health issue.  They should be honest about their pro abortion agenda.

BTW, Sen. Hutchison now has 80 cosponsors on her bill to fund the military. This was an issue that Democrats were going to lose on if their had been no agreement.

Rolling back the baseline to 2008 numbers can save a ton of money over the next 10 years and that is before taking on the entitlement programs.
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