Those creditors – the ECB, IMF and European the commission – believed Tsipras was offering insufficient cuts to meet the 1% target.
In addition, the huge increases in military spending, combined with insufficient cuts in other programs, produced massive budget deficits, the largest in the country's history; by the end of Reagan's second term, the deficits would contribute to a tripling of the national debt, to more than $2.5 trillion.
"I can't support it in its current form," said Representative Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, citing insufficient cuts and "the dearth of confidence I have in a 12-member commission being able to do what Congress hasn't been able to do".
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Low growth, while ending the recession, looks set to prolong the longest depression in the last 100 years and will be insufficient to cut unemployment significantly.
A recent review found that available funding to support people with learning disabilities is insufficient, and cuts have been detrimental to them, their families and carers.
If the streamlining turns out to be insufficient, the cuts would hit liberal states the hardest, according to a report by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, which does not account for the recent increase in funding for Maine, Arizona and Alaska.
But a smaller concession on tax expenditures might be worth making to get a deal that marries tax reform to some real (if, in the long run, woefully insufficient) entitlement cuts.
Despite Mr. Reid's warnings to the House, rank-and-file House Republicans — scores of whom initially seemed inclined to flee the House bill over what they felt were insufficient spending cuts — fell back in line behind Mr. Boehner, sensing that a compromise with Senate Democrats, which they would less favor, might otherwise be in the offing.
