Post by Logan on Feb 4, 2016 4:58:53 GMT -6
Idaho’s Raul Labrador tells conservatives to cut defense spending
WASHINGTON -- With most Republicans backing political outsiders in the 2016 presidential race, Idaho GOP Rep. Raul Labrador said Wednesday that his party must “wake up” and regain the public’s trust by tackling a $19 trillion debt with cuts in the Pentagon and elsewhere.
“If you’re a true fiscal conservative, you’re going to look at all the things,” Labrador said. “What are we doing in the Pentagon that is bloated? . . . Are there too many generals in the Pentagon? I think the answer is yes.”
For too long, Labrador said, Republicans have looked to cut social programs that are popular among Democrats without taking a hard look at the GOP’s sacred cows. He said funding the military should remain the nation’s highest goal but that defense projects must be examined as a way to “practice what we preach.”
“If we’re going to tell a single mother in Idaho that we’re going to be cutting that program, we better be willing to tell the establishment in Washington, D.C., that is full of multi-billionaires that we’re willing to look at the bloated budgets of the Pentagon and other areas,” Labrador said at the Heritage Foundation’s 2016 Conservative Policy Summit in Washington.
Read more here: www.idahostatesman.com/latest-news/article58255088.html
WASHINGTON -- With most Republicans backing political outsiders in the 2016 presidential race, Idaho GOP Rep. Raul Labrador said Wednesday that his party must “wake up” and regain the public’s trust by tackling a $19 trillion debt with cuts in the Pentagon and elsewhere.
“If you’re a true fiscal conservative, you’re going to look at all the things,” Labrador said. “What are we doing in the Pentagon that is bloated? . . . Are there too many generals in the Pentagon? I think the answer is yes.”
For too long, Labrador said, Republicans have looked to cut social programs that are popular among Democrats without taking a hard look at the GOP’s sacred cows. He said funding the military should remain the nation’s highest goal but that defense projects must be examined as a way to “practice what we preach.”
“If we’re going to tell a single mother in Idaho that we’re going to be cutting that program, we better be willing to tell the establishment in Washington, D.C., that is full of multi-billionaires that we’re willing to look at the bloated budgets of the Pentagon and other areas,” Labrador said at the Heritage Foundation’s 2016 Conservative Policy Summit in Washington.
Read more here: www.idahostatesman.com/latest-news/article58255088.html