The budget would also use a special procedural tool called reconciliation to find additional ways to cut federal spending.
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Rep. Morgan GriffithMorgan GriffithGOP hits a wall with election-year budget plan Conservatives fail to strip cyber text from spending bill After shootings, GOP pivots to mental health reform MORE (R-Va.) said he and others would be willing to support the budget resolution if it was directly attached to the billions of dollars of mandatory spending cuts now being marked up by House committees. “That was my judgement”.
The House GOP budget would cut spending on entitlement programs by handing responsibility for a range of programs to the states by providing a set amount of funding, a practice known as “block grants”. “As we face continued terror threats, it is critically important that we sustain our military and meet contingency operations requirements so that we can provide our next president with viable strategic options”. Democrats blasted the measure for proposing cuts deeper than any of their prior plans.This Republican budget takes a sledgehammer to Americas competitiveness and working families said top Budget Committee Democrat Chris Van Hollen of Maryland.
Some leading establishment Republicans like Mitt Romney, the party’s 2012 presidential candidate, have been publicly trying to derail Trump. When I see our principles being distorted, we’re going to stand up in defense of our principles. The move by the bloc of about three dozen conservatives reflects enduring opposition from tea party lawmakers to budget and debt deals with Obama.House leadership has continually asked the Republican conference to support President Obamas budget levels, even though the national debt passed the $19 trillion mark in January, said a Freedom Caucus statement.
House Democrats have not committed to voting in favor of the budget.
“I promise in this speakership that we’re not going to have a top-down, cram-it-down-peoples-throat kind of leadership”, he said. Republican leaders hoped to win over some conservatives by offering stand-alone legislation to cut the $30 billion that fiscal conservatives wanted.
With Trump’s surging candidacy headed toward a likely nomination, Ryan said House Republicans are focused on their plans to pass a budget and produce proposals to create jobs and rein in executive branch actions they oppose. The budget requires consideration of such legislation.
“We have to be careful about chasing the unicorn of regular order in the middle of traffic”, one Freedom Caucus member said during Monday night’s meeting, according to another member in the room.
“Look, people are angry”, Ryan said on WRJN, a radio station in Racine, Wisconsin, in an interview in which he didn’t mention Trump’s name.
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“What we can control is we can control our agenda, that’s what we are doing”, said Ryan, and will support “who the nominee us going to be, that’s gonna be selected by our voters”.
