As Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) rejects the Republican-led House of Representatives’ proposed “two-week budget extension to March 18 with $4 billion in reductions in spending,” the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) called on U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) to tell Michigan voters where she stands.

Stabenow’s Washington party bosses – whose big-spending liberal agenda she has consistently rubberstamped – refuse to cut even a single dollar from federal spending, and are now stepping up their threat to force a government shutdown. But Stabenow has yet to tell voters whether she supports the Republican-led compromise, or whether she will yet again put her Democrat party bosses’ extreme agenda ahead of the best interests of her state.

Meanwhile, CBS reports that “the national debt has increased $3.5 trillion so far,” and according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) non-defense discretionary spending has increased 24 percent since January 2009, reminding voters that Stabenow and the Democrats’ reckless spending has already helped drive the national debt past $14 trillion while failing to create jobs.

“It’s a simple question, and Michigan taxpayers deserve a straight answer from their Senator: will Debbie Stabenow side with her Washington party bosses yet again, or will she agree to the compromise that Republicans have put forward?” asked NRSC Press Secretary Chris Bond. “With her strong support for reckless spending, Stabenow has already helped add trillions to our national debt. So will she finally stand down from her big-spending ways, or will she once again put her party’s narrow Washington agenda ahead of the best interests of her state?”