Hudson Votes To Reduce Discretionary Spending to Pre-Obama Levels

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 15, 2014

Hudson Votes To Reduce Discretionary Spending to Pre-Obama Levels

WASHINGTON-Today, U.S. Representative Richard Hudson (NC-08) issued the following statement after voting in support of the omnibus appropriations package to provide discretionary funding for the entire federal government for the fiscal year.

“When I ran for Congress, I repeatedly said that the first step we must take to reduce spending and scale back our bloated bureaucracy is to cut discretionary spending to pre-Obama levels. We accomplished that goal today, but we still have more work to do. The package that I supported today eliminates waste, protects our defense community by replacing sequestration’s indiscriminate across-the-board cuts, and begins to provide the economic certainty and security that hardworking families and small businesses need to succeed.”

“This bill, however, is far from perfect—although we were able to reverse one of the most egregious problems with the military retiree’s COLA issue by eliminating the cuts to medically retired veterans, we owe a fix to all of those who have been impacted by this policy. I will continue to work to fix this problem and will press for more spending cuts to save taxpayers’ hard-earned money.”