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◼ A Least Bad Budget Deal - Wall Street Journal Editorial
◼ Republican establishment bites back - Yahoo News
◼ Ryan budget deal gets positive review at closed-door Republican conference - The Hill
Yet despite Ryan’s imprimatur, the deal faced opposition from a sizable chunk of the most hardcore conservatives, who criticized the agreement at an event shortly after the GOP meeting.
“I think it is terrible plan,” Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho) said. “It makes promises to the American people that are false. Today the Democrats realized they were right all along, that we would never hold the line on the sequester.”
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), former chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee, said the agreement violated the agreement struck in January between Boehner and the conservatives, which followed a fiscal cliff deal that deeply divided the party.
“I would argue that this agreement, while it has some positives, is a marked departure from what we all agreed,” he said. “It is not going to put us on the path to balance.”
Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Calif.) said he could not swallow any deal that promises future cuts for near-term spending increases.
But a few members were more positive at the monthly Conversations with Conservatives event.
Rep. Vicki Hartlzer (R-Mo.) said she was leaning yes.
“It replaces sequester cuts to our national defense without raising taxes,” she said.
Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.), who is spearheading opposition to the bill conceded that it will likely get a majority of House Republicans behind it.
"I think it probably will," he said. "This was not a bill designed to get our support...it was designed to get the support of defense hawks and appropriators and Democrats."
◼ Budget Deal Hits Military Retirees with Pension Cuts, Federal Retirees Untouched - Washington Free Beacon
