Raw Data: Boehner, Reid Joint Statement on Budget Deal

Published December 23, 2015

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., tonight released the following statement Friday night:

"We have agreed to an historic amount of cuts for the remainder of this fiscal year, as well as a short-term bridge that will give us time to avoid a shutdown while we get that agreement through both houses and to the President. We will cut $78.5 billion below the President's 2011 budget proposal, and we have reached an agreement on the policy riders. In the meantime, we will pass a short-term resolution to keep the government running through Thursday. That short-term bridge will cut the first $2 billion of the total savings."

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