A new video from Speaker John Boehner released Thursday criticizes President Obama for being willing to negotiate with Russia but not the U.S. Congress on the national debt.
"Even President Obama worked with us two years ago in the debt limit negotiations to put controls on spending," Boehner said in a statement that accompanies the video:
After adding more than $6 trillion to the national debt, the president now says he won’t work in a bipartisan way to address our spending problem and strengthen our economy. But while the White House is stiff-arming Congress and the American people over needed spending cuts and reforms, there’s somebody out there that the Obama administration is eager to work with ...
Attaching deficit reduction measures to a debt limit increase is a common-sense policy that presidents of both parties have used for decades. "Even President Obama worked with us two years ago in the debt limit negotiations to put controls on spending," said Speaker Boehner. This year shouldn’t be different.
