Republicans May Skip Budget

[babylonsister]

https://politicalwire.com/2018/01/10/republicans-may-skip-budget/

Republicans May Skip Budget
January 10, 2018 at 8:49 pm EST
By Taegan Goddard


“Republican leaders are considering skipping passage of a GOP budget this year — a blow to the party’s weakened fiscal hawks that would squash all 2018 efforts to revamp entitlements or repeal Obamacare,” Politico reports.

“White House and Hill GOP leaders discussed the possibility of forgoing the painful budget process during last weekend’s Camp David legislative summit… Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has argued that he cannot pass controversial deficit-reduction legislation using powerful budget procedures with his new 51-vote majority — and wasn’t even sure he could find the votes for a fiscal blueprint in the first place.”

“But more importantly, it would mean the GOP’s 2018 agenda would be sharply limited: Only with passage of a joint House-Senate budget can Republicans deploy reconciliation tools, which allow them to circumvent the Senate filibuster and bypass Democrats, as they did on last year’s successful tax bill and failed Obamacare repeal push.”

[DetlefK]

1. It's almost as if they can't govern.

[underpants]

2. Republicaning is hard

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[OnDoutside]

3. Qwalitee.

[Deb]

4. Republicans to extend the Obama budget

Do I understand that correctly?

[greymattermom]

5. Perfect

They cut taxes and will keep the Obama budget, right? The government gets a pay cut but doesn't reduce its spending. Things like this should be explained in household budget terms. If your pay is cut, you don't buy a boat.

[D_Master81]

7. which is why

they will come back after 2018 if we dont retake the house and go after things like "entitlement reform". B/c to their base, the "boat" in your example isnt the tax cut, its the entitlements.

[DeminPennswoods]

6. In reality, only the individual appropriations bills

matter. Those are what fund gov't agencies. The budget is basically irrelevent.