"Gov. Perry helped balanced his budget with about $6 billion worth of federal help, which he happily took, but then started blaming the members of Congress who had offered that help," Obama said. "So, I think that there's a little inconsistency there."

Perry, in Austin at a business conference Tuesday, did sign the budget balanced with billions of stimulus money two years ago.

Told of the president's comments, Perry responded to the presidential charge of hypocrisy.

"We are a donor state," he said. "I would be happy if they send us back what we send up there. So, the idea that Texas is somehow not going to receive money back, now we don't want money that has strings attached to it."

Perry has also accused the president of putting Texas in the "crosshairs" with policies like the health care law and EPA enforcement of greenhouse gases on Texas oil and gas businesses.

When News 8 asked Obama if he put the state in the "crosshairs," he laughed and said, "no."

"No, I'm not a big fan of Washington, D.C.," Perry said. "I think they have taken way too much liberty in telling the states how to run their business."