Tea Party Freshmen Force GOP Leadership to Cut More Spending

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Chastened GOP leaders promised Thursday to find a full $100 billion in spending cuts after freshmen lawmakers torpedoed a proposal that they said betrayed the party’s “Pledge to America.”

In a stinging rebuke to party leadership, Republicans on the Appropriations Committee abandoned plans to seek only $74 billion in cuts just hours before their continuing resolution was set to be unveiled.

The abrupt reversal set off a mad scramble among Republican staffers to scrape together the extra cuts in time to unveil the final spending resolution by Friday.

The GOP ran on a pledge to cut $100 billion. The GOP leadership tried to scale that back but the freshmen weren't having any part of it. This is how we'll avoid having another 1995 when the GOP won big but promptly forgot (or ignored) the promises they made to the voters.