So what do you do if you're in Congress and a popular president from your own party makes spending recommendations? Ignore them. That is if you're a Democrat in the 111th Congress.

The Hill is reporting House Democrats are defying President Obama's proposed $19.8 billion in budget cuts:

"The president proposed axing dozens of programs that he said were inefficient or ineffective, but members of the House Appropriations Committee are including the money for them. They are looking to cut elsewhere — and are targeting even some of Obama’s priorities. Democrats on the panel are, for example, leaving out $60 million required to close the prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba — one of Obama’s campaign promises."

Some other spending disagreements are over prisons for illegal immigrants, local telecommunications, water infrastructure, transportation, and homeland security funds.

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