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Rubber Hits The Road

by David Kurtz
01.20.11 | 8:09 am

A big bloc of conservative House Republicans is rolling out its proposed spending cuts today. You’ve got the usual targets — NEA, CPB, NEH — but the big knife comes in the form of capping non-defense spending at 2006 levels.

If you wondered throughout the 2010 campaign what the GOP’s proposed spending cuts would look like, now you can see just how draconian they are.

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