If Republicans want to call them “stimulus” proposals, so be it.
Senate Democratic leaders on Wednesday called on the bipartisan debt limit group led by Vice President Joe Biden to include new job-creation measures in their negotiations and bashed Republicans for their laser-like focus on cuts.
Short-term proposals, aimed at stimulating the still-flagging economy, could include new spending on infrastructure and clean energy and a White House plan to extend a 2 percent payroll tax cut that was part of a deal struck with the GOP last December.
House Speaker "John Boehner called it a gimmick. [House Budget Chairman] Paul Ryan called it a sugar high. [Sens.] Lamar Alexander and Jeb Hensarling both criticized it as short-term stimulus. Apparently, that’s a bad thing,” Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday at a news conference attended by the chamber’s entire Democratic leadership team.
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