Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (left) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell quickly released statements today blaming each other’s party for the super committee’s failure to reach a deficit deal.
Both Boehner and McConnell appeared to back the sequester mechanism that was created in the debt ceiling deal should the super committee fail. That could put them at odds with large parts of their party, which have insisted on changes to protect defense spending.
“The good news is that even without an agreement, $1.2 trillion will still be cut from the deficit,” McConnell said in his statement. “Now it falls on the President to ensure that the defense cuts he insisted upon do not undermine national security.”
However, McConnell aides said tonight that he does not believe the cuts to defense spending should be made because of dire predictions by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.
A man from Kentucky attends a Tea Party Patriots rally on the West Front of the Capitol to protest the IRS' targeting of conservative political groups.
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