Lawmakers laid out their stances on coming negotiations over the so-called fiscal cliff yesterday, when the Senate Republican leader called for stopping across-the-board defense cuts from starting in January. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) kicked off the lame-duck session of Congress yesterday by describing disparate ways to address the so-called fiscal cliff of year-end thorny budget events. That cliff includes $500 billion in decade-long “sequestration” cuts to planned defense spending. Reid, McConnell, and…
McConnell Argues Against DoD Cuts Ahead Of White House Fiscal Summit
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