Friday, February 4, 2011

Rand Paul worries GOP isn’t ‘brave enough’ to balance budget

Rand Paul worries GOP isn’t ‘brave enough’ to balance budget

Sahil Kapur
Raw Story
February 4, 2011

Tea party favorite Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said in an interview published Friday that the GOP’s proposed budget cuts were inadequate and fretted that his party may not have the courage to make a dent in the deficit.

“It’s really not going to touch the problem,” Paul told ABC News‘s Jonathan Karl. “There’s a disconnect between Republicans who want a balanced budget but aren’t maybe yet brave enough to talk about the cuts to come.”

The Republican budget proposed Thursday offers $32 billion in spending cuts from a resolution funding the government in fiscal 2011 — less than the party’s proclaimed $74 billion in cuts, and far short of GOP promises to remove $100 from the budget prior to the November elections.

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