Back in early February, House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan presented the Republican leadership's plan to cut $35 billion from the remainder of the fiscal year 2011 budget. As it turns out, that dollar figure is roughly the same one John Boehner, Harry Reid and President Obama have closing in on for days. Of course, the Republican crusade to shut down the federal government long ago stopped being about cutting spending, but instead about curbing the EPA, funding school vouchers for DC and, more than anything else, what Rep. Mike Pence called "Battling Big Abortion."
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