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GOP moderates push back on tea party spending cuts

By Andrew Taylor
Published August 12, 2013 7:08am ET
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GOP moderates push back on tea party spending cuts
FILE - In this March 14, 2013, file photo House Appropriations Committee Chairman Harold "Hal" Rogers, R-Ky., talks about his role as a pain manager of the nation’s fiscal difficulties in his office on Capitol Hill in Washington. Tea party forces may have dominated the House GOP’s approach to the budget so far, but pragmatists in the party, like Rogers, have served notice they won’t stand idly by for indiscriminate spending cuts to politically popular community development grants, education programs and even Amtrak. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, FILE) | J. Scott Applewhite

WASHINGTON (AP) — Midway between the 2012 and 2014 election campaigns, moderate Republican conservatives are beginning to foment a revolt of their own.

It’s a backlash to anti-spending tea party shrillness as budget cuts begin to significantly shrink defense and domestic programs.

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