Budget deal actually increased spending this year

[Puppycow]

What Budget Cuts

Remember the big budget deal that narrowly averted a government shutdown in April? The one that was going to save $39 billion from this year's budget? Well, it turns out those numbers were a farce.

The Congressional Budget Office reported yesterday that the budget deal will save $122 billion in outlays - over ten years, which is much less than the over $300 billion that Republicans had been touting.

Even worse, the CBO says that spending in the current fiscal year will actually increase - yes, you read that right - by $3.2 billion.

"Total discretionary outlays in 2011 will be $3.2 billion higher as a result of the legislation," the CBO said in a report posted online Monday.

CBO: Recent spending bill falls short on cuts

Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, had touted the legislation as reducing the deficit by more than $300 billion over a ten-year span. His prediction was based on an analysis by a Senate aide that the $38 billion in cuts this year would translate into $315 billion over a decade.

But the Congressional Budget Office, the closest thing to an official referee, said Monday the cuts add up to much less.

Ooops!

 

[Grizzly Adams]

Which probably means the increases the Dummycrats wanted would have cost even more.

 

[JoeTheJuggler]

Some of the spending "cuts" counted were programs that were already scheduled to sunset and wouldn't have been a part of anyone's budget.

And remember, for this they were threatening to shut down government and attempting to work their anti-choice policies passed off as budget cuts.