President Obama’s spokesman today indicated his budget as the only way to avoid a debt-ceiling showdown this year, but the Senate unanimously voted against the budget today.
“The nation has never ever faced a deeper, more dangerous debt crisis than we face today,” Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., said after the vote, as he praised Rep.Paul Ryan, R-Wis., for proposing a budget to put the debt on a sustainable path. “The president’s budget utterly failed in that regard.”
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Obama’s budget failed, 99 votes to 0. The U.S. House of Representatives already voted against the president’s budget, 414-0.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney described Obama’s budget as a “balanced approach” to fiscal policy, and called for House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, to support the plan when the United States hits the debt ceiling later this year.
