John Boehner 8TH DISCTRICT OF OHIO

Last night, the House Budget Committee approved legislation to replace devastating cuts to our national defense with common-sense spending cuts and reforms that will further reduce the deficit. You can read the bill online here (searchable PDF here). The House will take action on this bill soon.

According to Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), over the next 10 years the reforms passed by the House Budget Committee “achieve over 400 percent of the first-year” savings in the Budget Control Act, “replacing temporary, arbitrary cuts with lasting, permanent reforms.”

Instead of forcing America’s troops to pay for Washington’s failures, the spending cuts and reforms passed by the Budget Committee eliminate taxpayer-funded bailouts and slush funds, restrain spending on government bureaucracies, stop fraud in taxpayer-funded benefit programs, and more.

Unfortunately, President Obama has been too busy fighting straw men and touting political gimmicks to offer a plan to stop the automatic military cuts – even though his administration admits they would “hollow out” our armed forces. His latest gimmick is a “to do” list for Congress on jobs. This is ironic because the Democratic-controlled Senate has blocked dozens of House-passed jobs bills … and because the defense cuts the president is ignoring would damage our security and – at a time of high unemployment – jeopardize the well-being of America’s servicemembers and their families.

The GOP proposals replace arbitrary military cuts in the Budget Control Act and “lay the groundwork for further efforts to avert the spending-driven economic crisis,” says Chairman Ryan. “House Republicans are bringing specific proposals to the table, and we invite the administration to do the same.”

Learn more here and read the bill online here.