MacCallum Questions W.H. Spox: ‘Not Hearing Anything’ from W.H. on ‘Running Up the Debt’
RUSH EXCERPT:
GIDLEY: “That’s actually not true. In fact, the president’s budgets that he put forward in the past were actually the largest cuts in spending of any president in history, but no one voted on the political reality exists here that Democrats like to hold the military hostage. The president has rebuilt the military, it’s the strongest most powerful entity on the planet. He’s done so right by the people serving his country, giving them the biggest race they’ve had in ten years, but Democrats say, look, if you’re going to spend money on the military to protect the American people, which is what the federal government should do, then we are going to hold each dollar you spend on the military hostage as a ransom, if you will, to spend on all of our domestic pet projects. The president felt as though we need to move forward on rebuilding the military, so that’s where we sit right now but there are plenty of plans in the future — ”
