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White House to miss deadline for report on ‘fiscal cliff’ budget cuts
The White House on Friday said it will miss the legal deadline for delivering a report to Congress on the spending cuts from sequestration that are scheduled to take effect in 2013.
Spokesman Jay Carney told reporters on Air Force One that the report will be coming next week.
Under the terms of the Sequestration Transparency Act signed in August, President Obama was to tell Congress by Friday how the administration plans to implement the $109 billion in automatic cuts mandated by the Budget Control Act.
The Office of Management and Budget has repeatedly failed to make legal deadlines. It delivered its presidential budget proposals and mid-session updates late both this year and last year.
Republicans have tried to tie the tardiness to the failure of the Senate to pass a budget resolution for the last three years.
“Like the [Sen. Harry] Reid majority, the White House has shown astonishingly little regard for budget law in this time of crisis,” said Stephen Miller, a spokesman for Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala), who co-authored the transparency law.
Bad Brad
September 8th, 2012
Obama could be heard yelling from his private office on Air Force One, “Math is hard damn it”.
historicus
September 8th, 2012
Deadlines are what working people meet on time. Deadbeats, not so much.
Hire the affirmative action, they’re fun to watch.
Jarhead Cracka
September 8th, 2012
It’s not just the Senate who gives such little regard to the Budget, Obama’s last two budget proposals have been shot down with not one Senator voting for it. The R&R campaign needs to show the contrast with Ryan budget votes.
Maudie N Mandeville
September 8th, 2012
This is the last thing a ‘voting present’ Obama needs at this time. This report is supposed to detail CUTS, something he’s never had to defend before.
Some way, some how they are not going to detail much detail and give fodder to Romney. Won’t happen.
Bob M.
September 8th, 2012
More of that famous Obama “Clear as MUD” transparency!
the aardvark
September 8th, 2012
So what else is new from supposedly the most transparent presidency ever? Even the crickets have jumped ship and the rats are fleeing in droves as I type.
FreeMan & Sarah on Vacation
September 8th, 2012
Add it to the list of other missed dead lines and doctored reports. Who is going to do anything about this or all the others? No one.
Boobie the Rocket Dog
September 9th, 2012
And just WHO has the audacity to set deadlines for THE ONE®?
well.
September 9th, 2012
y’all tryin to compete w’ Frosteetoes?