GOP Budget Chairman Assails Obama’s Spending Plan

WASHINGTON  – The House Budget Committee chairman says
Republicans don’t want to see the government shut down in a fight
with President Barack Obama over spending priorities.

Wisconsin Republican Paul Ryan also tells ABC’s “Good Morning
America” the GOP doesn’t want to “rubber stamp” spending
policies it opposes just to keep the government running.

Ryan says “we obviously don’t want to see a shutdown occur” if
lawmakers can’t agree on a short-term spending bill by a March 4
deadline. He said Obama “punted” on confronting the deficit.
Asked what Republicans would do differently,, Ryan said lawmakers
must not exempt benefit programs like Social Security and Medicare
from cuts. Ryan said that if Republicans “ignore the drivers of
our debt, which are these entitlement programs, then we are no
better than the president.”