Democrats are beginning to arrange a pushback against GOP spending cuts — and they’re enlisting lobbyists to help them. From ABC News:

As Congress prepares to make deep spending cuts, an army of lobbyists is gearing up to fight back.
In an e-mail obtained by ABC News, a top staffer for the key Senate Appropriations subcommittee called for a meeting of lobbyists and interest groups that would be affected by expected cuts to the Labor and Health and Human Services budget. The Jan. 24 meeting was attended by approximately 400 people, sources told ABC, and served as a “call to arms” for those determined to fight Republican budget cuts. …
“They said these evil House Republicans are here and they’re going to kill all these programs that support little kids, senior citizens, and health care,” the source said. “They’re trying to instill the fear of God that Republicans are basically going to blow up all these programs, kill these programs, defund them.”
“It seemed to me like they are trying to build momentum to push the Republicans back on their promises on funding levels and I think – to their credit – they were reaching out to a vast number of organizations to build a coalition of people who are willing to take action against whatever may come out of the House.”

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