You'll probably find this to be an insane assertion, but I assure you that it has a solid rationale behind it. When the sequestration occurred earlier in the year, the aftermath was drummed up as being disastrous, perilous to the sputtering economy, predicted to affect unemployment adversely and slow down the much-needed growth in the GDP.
Some or all of those things happened, but can you honestly say that you felt the pinch as dreaded?
I did not.The stock market did well, salaries have not tumbled, heck, California has even rebounded to a surplus (temporary as it might be) after years of deficits.
What did the sequester do? It cut spending by making arbitrary cuts in about equal measure from defense and discretionary spending. When it hit, both sides were lamenting the cuts to the defense sector, and one side was upset over the discretionary cuts.
So coming into this budget fight, the goals for the Republicans were to cut spending to the areas they despised, restore defense spending, and get any semblance of dents made into Obamacare which is already law of the land. That is to maintain the sequestration level cuts, but by restoring defense spending at the expense of more cuts in discretionary spending.
