Congress Should Reduce Their Pay If Sequestration Cuts Take Effect

well sequester rations actually the big name for billions of dollars in automatic federal spending cuts schedule

to go into effect on Friday that is unless a deal is reached the president says it'll lead to layoffs for hundreds of thousands of Pentagon employees first

responders airport security personnel and thousands of other federal workers joining me now to talk about it South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham senator

it's great to have you fineness sequestration has become such

%HESITATION see what he can do with it is that a good idea and what do you propose add to deal are to do about sequestered well

would add another six hundred billion which would really unravel our military this idea that Republicans have a let it go into effect and watch

the president fix it is really not leadership don't you think that's what's wrong with Washington I thought we were the party of fiscal responsibility the

Republican house passed a replacement for sequestration our democratic friends are gonna raise taxes which is a bad idea cyanate Republican senators should

put a plan on the table rather than turning the government over to Barack Obama to find the cuts and just watch him %HESITATION

is our plan there you go well I want to get get my Republican colleagues to come up with a plan and

we start laying people off and you get furloughed one day out of five you don't get paid I think members of Congress we

should have our that our pay docked if we're going to ask cut defense contractors people in the government %HESITATION

will have a sense of the Senate resolution that we reduce Unna great idea that most Americans will applaud just as they are here in the studio today %HESITATION

you voted against the bill that authorized sequestration the president was the one I proposed it I want to play a little ditty a tape

of the president speaking about this two years ago already some in Congress are trying to undo

these automatic spending cuts my message to them is simple no I will veto any effort to get rid of

those automatic spending cuts to Mecca to domestic and defense spending this was his idea yet all this past week he's been traveling over the country blaming

Republicans does he have a lapse of memory are easy just being dishonest about where this came from always

mentioned Ronald Reagan thirty two years ago where did the party of Ronald Reagan go how could the Republican Party ever agree to a solution that

if he failed at the super committee level to find savings we would get the defense department has the solution again

fire the politicians not to soldiers but this he's the commander in chief I'm not how could any commander in chief preside

over dismantling the military phone where the world is on fire heavy noticed the news lately it's not exactly there's a peace dividend to be had out there so now he's very disingenuous and

won't destroy that finance department we can cut spending without destroying the military in raising taxes if we if

we sat down and and do the hard work and the president should have us in the White House instead of blaming us %HESITATION

be long waits at airports how much of this is our just pure hyperbole of