Sen. John Cornyn (R., Texas) blasted President Obama Tuesday for failing to submit his budget to Congress on time, noting that this is the fifth instance the President has missed the mandated deadline.
"I guess the President and his administration consider the law purely an advisory matter, and not binding on them," Cornyn said, citing that Obama’s three predecessors in the White House missed the budget deadline only four times in 20 years.
Cornyn believes Obama’s motive is to protect vulnerable Senate Democrats up for reelection from voting on the President’s own budget. Cornyn noted that the President’s last budget included a trillion dollar tax increase, a proposition many red-state Democrats would be hard-pressed to support.
"It looks like the president’s priorities are more taxes, more spending and more debt," Cornyn said. "If those policies lead to economic growth and prosperity we would see one of the greatest economic recoveries in American history… but the truth is, they don’t."
