{"id":108506,"date":"2015-11-02T17:47:50","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T00:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/tipton-opposes-budget-act-house-oks-deal-to-raise-debt\/"},"modified":"2015-11-02T17:47:50","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T00:47:50","slug":"tipton-opposes-budget-act-house-oks-deal-to-raise-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/tipton-opposes-budget-act-house-oks-deal-to-raise-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"Tipton opposes budget act House OKs deal to raise debt"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, which was negotiated between congressional leaders from both parties and the White House, passed the House with a final vote of 266 to 167. Seventy-nine Republicans joined every House Democrat in supporting the deal.<\/p>\n

Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Cortez, who was one of the Republicans to vote against the measure, called it \u201ca bad deal that I cannot support.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWashington\u2019s spending addiction has created an over $18 trillion national debt,\u201d Tipton said in a statement soon after his vote. \u201cThis course is unsustainable, and the day is fast approaching when our nation is going to have to pay the piper.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 may have some good aspects, overall it\u2019s more of the same Washington status-quo dysfunction that Americans are tired of,\u201d Tipton said.<\/p>\n

The current budget deal extends the federal government\u2019s borrowing authority until after President Barack Obama leaves office. The plan also increases spending caps by $80 billion in 2016 and 2017 and also includes the first long-term entitlement reforms to Social Security in more than 30 years.<\/p>\n

The budget deal will now move to the Senate, where Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has announced that he will take up the agreement before the Nov. 3 deadline. McConnell has already filed a motion to limit debate on the agreement once it reaches the Senate, where it is expected to pass despite a pledge from Republican presidential candidate and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul to filibuster the deal.<\/p>\n

While the two-year agreement removes the risk of an impending default and makes the likelihood of a government shutdown less likely, Congress still needs to pass an omnibus spending bill by Dec. 11 to fill in the remaining financial details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, which was negotiated between congressional leaders from both parties and the White House, passed the House with a final vote of 266 to 167. Seventy-nine Republicans joined every House Democrat in supporting the deal. Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Cortez, who was one of the Republicans to vote against the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[1724,981,21,13,23],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-108506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-budgets-and-budgeting","tag-colorado-3rd-congressional-district","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-u-s-rep-scott-tipton"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108506"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=108506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}