https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/01/19/there-was-no-gop-entitlement-cutting-plan/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 05:24:12 -0400<![CDATA[House Republicans placed themselves on the side of entitlement reform when they voted for the Ryan budget. But the Ryan budget was a far-reaching, intricately interconnected plan that addressed not only entitlement spending but taxes and revenues and more. It was not a proposal that Republicans could just throw at the president and say, Here, this is our position. As for the actions on entitlements that might have been part of GOP demands for a debt-ceiling deal, says one participant in the Williamsburg meeting: “Long term, those have to be figured out. But my sense of that is that it is not going to happen in ten days. This is complex, important.” In other words, there was no plan for major entitlement cuts as part of the debt-limit strategy.]]>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 20:55:48 -0500<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2013/01/19/there-was-no-gop-entitlement-cutting-plan-n99400