Republicans Are Slamming Obama For Proposing The Sequester — But Here's What They Wanted Instead
Both sides of the political aisle are trading blame for a looming sequester of across-the-board spending cuts that neither side really wants anymore. House Speaker John Boehner is blasting the "#obamaquester" on Twitter — which, as detailed in Bob Woodward's "The Price of Politics," was the White House's idea. The White House's idea of the sequester, however, came about because they saw it as a good alternative to what Republicans were proposing at the time — austerity at a much weaker point of the economic recovery. In 2011, Boehner established the so-called "Boehner rule,"
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