Con 2015 richiesta di bilancio, Obama chiedere la fine di un'era di austerità

Prossima richiesta di bilancio del presidente Obama cercherà di decine di miliardi di dollari di spesa fresca per priorità interne abbandonando una proposta di compromesso per domare il debito pubblico in parte dal taglio prestazioni di sicurezza sociale.

Con l' 2015 richiesta di bilancio, Obama chiedere la fine all'era di austerità che ha perseguitato gran parte della sua presidenza e ai suoi sforzi per trovare un terreno comune con i repubblicani. Invece, il presidente si concentrerà sulla pompare nuova liquidità in formazione lavoro, programmi di istruzione e di altri prima infanzia volto a rafforzare la classe media, fornendo Democratici con un progetto policy voce nelle elezioni di medio termine.

Come parte di questa strategia, Obama will jettison the framework he unveiled last year for a so-called grand bargain that would have raised taxes on the rich and reined in skyrocketing retirement spending. A centerpiece of that framework was a proposal — demanded by GOP leaders — to use a less-generous measure of inflation to calculate Social Security benefits.

The idea infuriated Democrats and never gained much traction with rank-and-file Republicans, who also were unwilling to contemplate tax increases of any kind. Giovedi ', administration officials said that the grand-bargain framework remains on the table but that it was time to move on.

“Over the course of last year, Republicans consistently showed a lack of willingness to negotiate on a deficit-reduction deal, refusing to identify even one unfair tax loophole they would be willing to close,” said a White House official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe the budget before its official release. “That is not going to stop the president from promoting new policies that should be part of our public debate.”

Republicans said emerging details of the president’s budget prove he was never serious about addressing the nation’s long-term debt problems.

“This reaffirms what has become all too apparent: the president has no interest in doing anything, even modest, to address our looming debt crisis,” Brendan Buck, a spokesman for House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), detto in una dichiarazione. “The one and only idea the president has to offer is even more job-destroying tax hikes, and that non-starter won’t do anything to save the entitlement programs that are critical to so many Americans.”

The new budget request, due out March 4, comes during a relative lull in Washington’s lengthy budget wars. Alla fine dell'anno scorso, Congress approved a two-year spending plan negotiated by the chairmen of the House and Senate Budget committees, Rappresentante. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), that would ease automatic cuts, known as the sequester, that were eating away at agency spending. And this month, Congress agreed to forgo another battle over the federal debt limit, voting to suspend its enforcement until March 2015.

The lack of conflict is due in part to the collapse of the deficit as a political issue. While annual budget deficits remain high by historical standards, they have shrunken rapidly over the past few years as the economy recovered and Congress acted to cut spending.

The latest estimates from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office show the deficit falling to$514 billion this year and to $478 billion in fiscal 2015 — well below the trillion-dollar deficits the nation racked up during the recession and immediately afterward. But the CBO warned that deficits would start to grow again in a few years.

In recognition of that fact, Obama would retain some parts of his grand-bargain framework, including a proposal to require wealthy seniors to pay more for Medicare benefits than they do now. Funzionari della Casa Bianca ha detto il presidente continua a ritenere che i programmi di autorizzazione come Medicare e Social Security devono essere riformate per essere sostenibile.

SOURCE: Washington Post