Boehner: It’s Not My Job To Stop Budget Cuts

Speaker John Boehner says it’s up to Democrats to stop budget cuts, not him.

Cloistered in his Capitol office overlooking the National Mall, Boehner said in an interview with The Associated Press that he was skeptical of many of President Barack Obama’s plans, laid out the night before in the annual State of the Union address.

Boehner voiced doubts about Obama’s proposal for taxpayer-funded help for pre-school education for all 4-year-olds, and would not commit to passing a pathway to citizenship for the nation’s 11 million illegal immigrants, though doing so would be “somewhat helpful” to members of his party as they seek to regain support among Hispanics. “There’s no magic potion that’s going to solve our party’s woes with Hispanics,” he said.

Boehner also refused to swing behind any of Obama’s gun-control proposals and said he opposed the president’s plan to raise the minimum wage to $9 an hour.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.