{"id":9228,"date":"2011-04-08T20:21:30","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T00:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=9228"},"modified":"2011-04-08T20:21:30","modified_gmt":"2011-04-09T00:21:30","slug":"gop-ready-to-win-budget-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9228\/gop-ready-to-win-budget-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Ready to Win Budget Fight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>NRO<\/em>&#8216;s Robert Costa has a great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\" target=\"_blank\">interview with Rep. Tom Price<\/a> (R-GA) on the GOP Policy Committee chairman&#8217;s advice to colleagues:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt is hard to remember that we are the minority party here in Washington,\u201d Price says. \u201cWe run one-sixth of the federal government, and the person with the ace of spades, who can trump everything, is the president. If he wants it shut down, he\u2019ll shut it down. My gut sense tells me that\u2019s what he wants, and so we\u2019ll have a shutdown, since the president wants to shut it down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Price believes that the GOP is ready to win the fight. \u201cI think people understand that House Republicans have been the responsible body in all of this; that we are ones who have passed a bill to fund the government for the remainder of this fiscal year; that we are the ones who came up with a solution to keep this thing rolling, to keep our troops funded; and that our greatest ally in the Middle East has the resources it needs,\u201d he says. \u201cWe are doing the right thing by standing our ground; that\u2019s what we got elected to do.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hope the GOP budget negotiators heed Price&#8217;s words and stand their ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NRO&#8216;s Robert Costa has a great interview with Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) on the GOP Policy Committee chairman&#8217;s advice to colleagues: \u201cIt is hard to remember that we are the minority party here in Washington,\u201d Price says. \u201cWe run one-sixth of the federal government, and the person with the ace of spades, who can trump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70,2154,2580,334,2579,415],"class_list":["post-9228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-budget","tag-house-gop","tag-negotiations","tag-republican-party","tag-robert-costa","tag-tom-price"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9229,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9228\/revisions\/9229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}