Sen. Bernie Sanders said Monday that Democrats in Congress already made a “major concession” in agreeing to sequester cuts as part of a prior, short-term spending deal and should not have to lock in those cuts for a full year.
Mr. Sanders, a Vermont independent who caucuses with Democrats, told MSNBC that his colleagues were not “moving the goal posts” by taking a second look at the sequester budget cuts as part of a deal to reopen the government and raise the debt limit, even though Republicans are balking at the mere mention of toying with the sequester.
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He said House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, should hold a vote on a “clean” continuing resolution to fund the government, because short-term deals to kick the can down the road a few weeks or months will not break the cycle of deadlock on Capitol Hill.
Republicans, Mr. Sanders told MSNBC’s “Jansing & Co.,” are suggesting “we can go through this insanity again.”
