Cheney will speak to Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy’s (Calif.) GOP whip team Tuesday evening, and is expected to drop by a meeting of the Elected Leadership Committee, a group that includes Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), McCarthy and other top GOP leaders.
The point of the visit is to get lawmakers “ginned up” about the need to blunt the cuts, a Republican insider said.
Cheney’s visit to Capitol Hill comes as House Republicans launch into a week focused on the Defense sequester — automatic cuts to the Pentagon that took effect because of the failure of the so-called supercommittee in 2011. Republicans voted for the deal that created the cuts, but later tried to reverse them with a bill filled with spending cuts. They‘re now charging that Democrats have no plan to blunt the steep spending decreases.
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