Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) on Tuesday slammed Senate Democrats for
refusing to tackle a new budget.
“[Senate Majority Leader] Harry Reid [D-Nev.] has said so far this
will be another year where they will ignore their statutory
obligation, and an obligation based on decency, to do a budget,” Toomey told MSNBC.
“We do not need to bring a budget to the floor this year — it
’s done,
we don
’t need to do it,
” Reid said Friday, citing the debt-ceiling
deal that set up spending levels for 2013 and calling another budget
unnecessary.
But Toomey promised that the Senate GOP
“would be voting
” on a budget this year.
“Republicans will be voting on a budget that Republicans support,
” he
said.
“It may be the House Republican budget; it may be our own
budget; we may have several budgets like we did last year.
”
Toomey appeared on MSNBC to criticize President Obama
’s proposed
budget as a
“failure of leadership
” that did not address the deficit
or entitlement reform.
