Half of Ryan-Murray Budget Cuts Don't Happen Until 2022

The budget deal announced Tuesday by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) would boost federal spending by around $65 billion over the next two years. This new spending is offset by increasing user fees, boosting pension contributions by federal employees and the military, and other minor changes. Ryan and Murray also say that the deal will reduce the deficit by $23 billion over the next 10 years. This reduction, however, doesn't start until 2022. According to a 4-page summary document of the deal obtained by Breitbart News, "[t]he budget proposal saves $28 billion over ten years by requiring the President to sequester the same percentage of mandatory budgetary resources in 2022 and 2023 as will be sequestered in 2021 under current law."

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ALG Blasts Reid for Placing Sen. Murray on Super-committee

August 10th, 2011, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today blasted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for placing Senator Patty Murray on the deficit reduction committee:

Senator Murray serves as the Chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, whose job is to raise money to maintain the Senate Majority. Murray’s inclusion indicates that Harry Reid is using the super-committee as a means to shake down political interests in exchange for protection in the budget process. Read more at Get Liberty.org - Americans for Limited Government (ALG)...

UPDATE: See full list of Super-Committee appointees:

DEMOCRATS
Sen. Patty Murray (WA)
Sen. Max Baucus (MO)
Sen. John Kerry (MA)
Rep. James Clyburn (SC)
Rep. Xavier Becerra (CA)
Rep. Chris Van Hollen (MD)

REPUBLICANS
Sen. John Kyl (AZ)
Sen. Pat Toomey (PA)
Sen. Rob Portman (OH)
Rep.Jeb Hensarling (TX)
Rep. Dave Camp (MI)
Rep. Fred Upton (MI)

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