Obama ‘Actively’ Made Supercommittee’s Job ‘More Difficult,’ Toomey Says

(CNSNews.com) – Not only did President Barack Obama refuse to help the supercommittee as it attempted to reach an agreement on reducing the federal budget deficit — the president complicated things for the committee, Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) said on Tuesday.

“The president actively made our jobs more difficult,” Toomey told Fox & Friends. “He issued veto threats. He said…Obamacare had to be off the table, despite the fact that over time, that’s a multi-trillion-dollar, extraordinary waste of money — a very ill-conceived program. He came in and said that we ought to — in addition to everything else we were working on — we ought to find a way to pay for his latest $500-billion stimulus bill. The president was not helpful.”

Toomey was one of 12 lawmakers on the panel that announced Monday it had failed to come up with $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction — a failure that will trigger $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts in 2013.

Supercommittee Democrats refused to consider Republican spending cuts unless Republicans agreed to a trillion-dollar tax hike, Toomey said.

But Toomey and other Republicans say a trillion-dollar tax hike would have been “devastating” to the economy. “The problem is a spending problem,” said Toomey, noting that Democrats — when they controlled all three branches of government in 2009 and 2010 — went on a spending binge.

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