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Newt Gingrich blasted President Obama for "distorting the facts" when mentioning the former House Speaker in remarks criticizing House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) budget proposal Tuesday.

In wide-ranging and harshly critical remarks, the president said the Republican plan was "laughable" and "makes the Contract for America look like the New Deal."

"In fact, that renowned liberal Newt Gingrich first called the original version of the budget 'radical' and said it would contribute to right-wing social engineering," Obama said. "This is coming from Newt Gingrich… and yet this isn't a budget supported by some small group in the Republican Party, this is now the party's governing platform. This is what they're running on."

Gingrich called that comment a "distortion" in a statement released Tuesday.

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