Marco Rubio Doubles Down Against Budget Deal

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., continues to showcase his opposition to the federal budget deal crafted by U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis.

Rubio appeared on Megyn Kellys show on Fox News on Wednesday and slammed the deal, saying it will only increase federal spending.

Unfortunately the budget, what it does is it increases spending by about $60 billion over the next two years, Rubio told Kelly. Going above this cap, that by the way Congress imposed on itself, meaning these caps now that they passed in Washington, are meaningless because they come back a year later and go over them. But heres the problem: It raises it by $60 billion, the spending, but it pays it over 10 years. Well, you know how that works. Over the next couple of years theyll forget it, and they will keep borrowing more. The fundamental problem that we have here is that we have a government that continues to spend more money than it takes in. Its doing so at an alarming pace and our children are going to have to pay for this. Not just our children, many of the people that are around today are going to have to pay. We are going to have a debt crisis in this country. It is going to continue to destroy jobs. Its going to disrupt the function of our government. Its going to threaten our national security. When are we going to get serious about dealing with this once and for all?

Rubio also penned an op-ed over at Breitbarts explaining his opposition to the budget deal.