House Republicans bashed their Democratic colleagues Wednesday morning for foot-dragging on the annual budget resolution, accusing the majority of failing the American people by not laying out a fiscally responsible way to govern.
“It is astonishing to House Republicans, and we believe it will be a profound disappointment to millions of Americans, when they learn that this Democrat majority for the first time since the enactment of the budget act has abdicated its responsibility to do a budget,” House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence of Indiana said after the weekly meeting of his party.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), a member of the Budget Committee, called on John Spratt, the South Carolina Democrat who chairs his committee, to follow his words from 2006: If you can’t budget, you can’t govern.
To be sure, Democrats have not completely abandoned the possibility of passing a budget. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has recently said that they’re working on it, but other Democrats have signaled that it may be difficult during an already bloody election year. - Politico Story
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