Rep. King criticizes vacation for Obama daughters
By Mike Krumboltz | The Ticket – 2 hrs 28 mins ago
Sasha and Malia Obama at the Inaugural parade (AP/Gerald Herbert)
Speaking on a radio program, Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, ripped into President Obama for sending his daughters, Sasha and Malia, on a vacation while the federal government is being squeezed by the so-called sequester.
ThinkProgress, a progressive blog, reports that King was speaking on the "Mickelson in the Morning" program. A listener named Carla called in and began to reprimand Michelle Obama for vacationing in the Bahamas with her two daughters.
"It's hard to stomach. When we're tightening our belts, we should either all do it or none of us do it," she said, referring to sequestration – the recent round of automatic spending cuts that went into effect earlier this month when Congress and President Obama failed to reach a budget agreement.
Earlier this week, conservative news outlet Breitbart.com reported that the girls were on spring break, and named the resort where they were staying.
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