Obama Threatens Veto On House Spending Bills Unless Sequester Ends

President Obama threatens to veto all spending bills based on the 2014 Republican budget.

In Statements of Administration Policy, the White House said Obama would veto all spending bills unless they pass Congress “in the context of an overall budget framework that supports our recovery and enables sufficient investments in education, infrastructure, innovation and national security for our economy to compete in the future.”

That language suggests the administration, like congressional Democrats, wants to use the conference to turn off the automatic spending cuts to domestic discretionary spending known as the sequester. The statements warned that average Americans would be hurt if Congress fails to restore some of these cuts.

By: jybarz