Las Vegas Sun

March 28, 2024

LETTER TO THE EDITOR:

Democrats share in blame for budget failures

Thursday’s Las Vegas Sun editorial, “Finding a resolution,” blames Republicans for not working with Democrats to come up with a 2010 budget.

If I’m not mistaken, it was the overwhelmingly Democratic-controlled Congress (59 senators and more than 240 representatives) who failed to pass the 2010 budget, the first time that had happened since 1974.

The editorial states, “The Republicans realize that continuing resolutions — the short-term funding plans Congress uses to keep government operating — give them power.” I must have missed the Sun editorials written blasting Democrats for not passing one appropriations bill and using continuing resolutions to fund government all of last year.

With the recent release of the Government Accountability Office report stating government is wasting hundreds of billions annually, I believe Democrats find themselves in a bad situation. Maybe now President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats will quit using words like “draconian cuts” to demonize Republicans for trying to cut $61 billion from the $1.1 trillion or more that the government will spend through September.

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