Tag: Fiscal Responsibility

Speaker Boehner highlighted GOP efforts to cut spending and protect Americans from President Obama’s fiscal cliff tax hikes.

For nearly two years, Speaker Boehner has had one simple principle on the debt limit, “the Boehner Principle”: any debt limit increase must be accompanied by spending cuts and reforms of a greater amount.  This rule is the best – and maybe the only – mechanism to bring real spending cuts to Washington. In negotiations to avoid the fiscal cliff, President Obama has asked for the authority to increase the debt limit whenever he wants, however high he wants – with no spending cuts. That is never going to happen.

Speaker Boehner said the president’s failure to put forth a plan that is balanced and begins to address our debt crisis is stalling a solution to the fiscal cliff & putting American jobs at risk.

At a press conference today, Speaker Boehner said there is no progress to report on fiscal cliff talks, in light of the White House’s refusal to respond to Republicans’ balanced approach to avert the fiscal cliff...