As budget talks heat up, a coalition of conservatives are proposing a solution that cuts spending across the board, caps government spending and includes a balanced budget amendment—and some Republican lawmakers are already fully behind it.
Colin Hanna, president of conservative group Let Freedom Ring, announced today on Capitol Hill the coalition’s launch of the “Cut, Cap and Balance Pledge,” which asks members of Congress and citizens to commit to opposing an “irresponsible increase in our debt limit.”
“Today’s announcement represents an historic effort by dozens of outside groups, on behalf of millions of Americans, to unify around a simple principle: We recognize that half measures and timidity will guarantee a future debt crisis in America similar to what we have seen in Europe,” Hanna said. “Cut, Cap, Balance — a bold reform plan — will force reductions in spending in the near, medium and long term and put America back on the path to fiscal responsibility instead of a future of trillion-dollar annual deficits.”
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