Spending Daily| June 4, 2013

Obama Threatens Veto on Spending Bills Unless Sequester Ended
According to The Hill, “The White House warned Monday that President Obama will veto spending bills for 2014 unless Congress can agree on a budget framework that ends the sequester.

In Statements of Administration Policy, the White House said Obama would veto all spending bills unless they pass Congress ‘in the context of an overall budget framework that supports our recovery and enables sufficie...

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The 12 Percent

 As lawmakers begin round two of their political grandstanding against cutting three cents on the dollar in federal spending, a new report shows that billions are still being wasted.  The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently found that only 12 percent of its more than 300 recommendations to “eliminate, combine or modify duplicative programs” have been carried out.  Keep that in mind the next time someone asks if they are going to have to eliminate all funding fo...

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