Minority Leader Harry Reid is heralding the call now for Republican cooperation.
June 10, 2015
By Steve Tetreault
WASHINGTON — With Democrats and Republicans (click here) embroiled in a new but deepening dispute over spending, Sen. Harry Reid warned Wednesday the government is headed for another shutdown.
Funding to keep the doors open doesn’t run out until the end of September. But Reid, the Democratic leader from Nevada, said Congress appears on a stalemate path over key money bills that shows little promise to get solved before the fall.
Reid blamed Republicans, saying they are not willing to negotiate new levels of spending for domestic and defense programs in order to avoid deep automatic cuts mandated by the 2011 “sequestration” budget law. The sequester was designed to reduce spending by $1.2 trillion over nine years.
“It appears to me what the Republicans are doing that we’re headed for another shutdown,” Reid said in a Senate speech. “They did it once. They’re going to do it again.
“They don’t want to do anything now,” Reid said. “They want to wait until the end of the fiscal year ends and then close up the government.
“It appears that’s where we are headed,” Reid said....
June 10, 2015
By Steve Tetreault
WASHINGTON — With Democrats and Republicans (click here) embroiled in a new but deepening dispute over spending, Sen. Harry Reid warned Wednesday the government is headed for another shutdown.
Funding to keep the doors open doesn’t run out until the end of September. But Reid, the Democratic leader from Nevada, said Congress appears on a stalemate path over key money bills that shows little promise to get solved before the fall.
Reid blamed Republicans, saying they are not willing to negotiate new levels of spending for domestic and defense programs in order to avoid deep automatic cuts mandated by the 2011 “sequestration” budget law. The sequester was designed to reduce spending by $1.2 trillion over nine years.
“It appears to me what the Republicans are doing that we’re headed for another shutdown,” Reid said in a Senate speech. “They did it once. They’re going to do it again.
“They don’t want to do anything now,” Reid said. “They want to wait until the end of the fiscal year ends and then close up the government.
“It appears that’s where we are headed,” Reid said....
