WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) today voted to cut $315 billion in federal spending over the next ten years.  The vote was for a continuing resolution to fund the government through the end of the fiscal year on September 30.  It passed 81-19.

“Today’s vote is a start to putting our country back on a fiscally-responsible path, but deeper cuts in the coming months will be necessary,” said Wicker.  “The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff called our national debt the greatest threat to America’s security that we face.  With debt that is close to the $14.29 trillion debt ceiling, we must quit spending money that we do not have.  I remain committed to reducing spending in ways that make sense.”

Last year, the Democrat-controlled Congress failed to pass any appropriations bills to fund the federal government, enacting short-term measures through March 4, 2011, instead.  The House and Senate then agreed to three additional short-term spending bills, which included spending reductions.

Wicker recently wrote about the need to cut spending in this column.

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