Last night, the House Republican caucus held emergency meetings in the basement, only emerging late to say they reached an agreement on a spending cut plan for Fiscal Year 2011, one that would cut spending $100 billion below the Obama Administration’s 2011 request. Because Obama’s 2011 request never came to pass, however, the proper comparison is to the 2010 levels, and this cut would be $58 billion from those.
House Republicans Settle on Deeper Cuts for Fiscal Year 2011 |
| By: David Dayen Friday February 11, 2011 8:45 am |


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