Ezra Klein wrote Tea Party wins their first budget fight "That went fast. Yesterday's Wonkbook lede was about the $32 billion in cuts that the House Republican leadership had previewed for the rest of 2011. Today lede is about the $100 billion of cuts they're now searching to find for 2011. Why $100 billion? Because the campaign promise was to cut $100 billion in their first budget, and House conservatives revolted against efforts to cut even a dime less."
"They're going to need to propose three times as many cuts now. And this comes alongside a new Pew poll (pdf) showing that the only category of federal spending that a majority of Republicans support cutting is foreign aid. On everything from Social Security to education to crime prevention to scientific research, more spending is preferred."
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