Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell pre-empted President Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday by dismissing what is expected to be one of the key pillars of that speech: a call for a five-year non-defense discretionary spending freeze. Instead, McConnell endorsed House Republicans’ plan to reduce that spending to 2008-levels — significantly below what he’d agreed to support in 2010.
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