Conservatives lash out at GOP spending binge

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The GOP is the party of fiscal responsibility no more.
That`s according to some conservatives who are grappling with a Republican-backed spending binge that threatens to generate trillion-dollar deficits for years to come while staining a cherished pillar of the modern-day Republican Party.
While President Donald Trump and his allies hope economic growth may ease future deficits, few fiscal conservatives cheered Monday`s release of the president`s $4 trillion-plus budget, which would create $7.
2 trillion in red ink over the next decade if adopted by Congress.
That follows congressional passage of last week`s $400 billion spending pact, along with massive tax cuts, which some analysts predict will push deficits to levels not in generations.
Deficit hawks in Congress and conservative activists who railed against President Barack Obama`s spending plans called the GOP debt explosion "dangerous," ″immoral" and "a betrayal.
" American Conservative Union chairman Matt Schlapp warned the Republican-controlled Congress not to underestimate the impact of responsible spending for voters.
"If the Republicans in Congress don`t realize that spending control is one of the most important issues that our winning coalition cares about, if they are cavalier about spending decisions, I think we do risk our ability to go to the voters and say it matters to have us in the majority," he said.