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A Boehner-Cantor Split? (Update: Cantor Spokesman Walks It Back)

By Matthew Continetti
Published November 3, 2010 6:39pm ET
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A Boehner-Cantor Split? (Update: Cantor Spokesman Walks It Back)
Today, the Washington Post reports that Eric Cantor “said on CNN Wednesday that all discretionary spending should be cut to 2008 levels, including defense.” Yet in their Pledge to America, Republicans wrote this: With common-sense exceptions for seniors, veterans, and our troops, we will roll back government spending to prestimulus, pre-bailout levels, saving us at least $100 billion in the first year alone and putting us […]

Today, the Washington Post reports that Eric Cantor “said on CNN Wednesday that all discretionary spending should be cut to 2008 levels, including defense.”

Yet in their Pledge to America, Republicans wrote this:

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