03.06.13 UPDATE: House Passes Bill To Fund Government
For Six Months, Maintains Automatic Spending Cuts
Dear Speaker Boehner and Leader Cantor:
On behalf of Ending Spending, I write to you in support of H.R. 933, the Continuing Resolution for the remainder of FY 2013. Of great importance in the fight against out-of-control deficit spending, H.R. 933 locks in place the automatic spending cuts implemented through President Obama’s sequester.
As you know, our organization has strongly supported your efforts to defend the level of sequester cuts. As voters and the media have watched the Obama administration’s sequester rhetoric go from alarmist to patently false, it has become clear to the American people that cutting $85 billion out of a $3.6 trillion budget is not going to be the catastrophe that the administration claimed. Indeed, the sequester equates to a real reduction of only $44 billion in actual spending outlays this year, mere pennies on every dollar spent.
We believe that elected officials have a moral responsibility not to saddle future generations with a massive debt burden. The spending reductions achieved through sequester, and further implemented through the proposed FY 2013 CR, are a necessary first step towards controlling the deficits that threaten our economic future. Moreover, as Chairman Rogers has stated, the proposed CR “funds essential federal programs and services, helps maintain our national security, and takes a potential shutdown off the table.” For those reasons, we urge that the House pass H.R. 933.
We look forward to continuing to support your efforts as you work to advance fiscally responsible polices in Washington.
Sincerely yours,
Brian C. Baker
President
cc: Members of the U.S. House Republican Conference