“While it is encouraging the president has finally decided to participate in the deficit debate, it is disappointing that he has offered a so-called framework that ignores the destructive, burdensome long-term costs of entitlements and reversed his position on increasing taxes on the American people,” Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, said.
Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch criticized the president for what he said was a failure to put forth a concrete plan that will effectively address the nation’s debt crisis and reform the country’s debt broken entitlement programs.
“We are approaching a debt crisis,” Hatch said, “but the president seems willing to run the clock until the next election. This is a very dangerous game."
“The president has proposed only symbolic spending ‘cuts’ and higher taxes for Americans,” Lee said. “His speech today shows he is simply not serious about real deficit reduction.”
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