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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHouse GOP plan would cut Medicare, Medicaid to balance budget
House Republicans released a proposal Tuesday that would balance the budget in nine years but only by making large cuts to entitlement programs, including Medicare, that President Trump vowed not to touch.
The House Budget Committee is aiming to pass the blueprint this week, but that may be as far as it goes this midterm election year. It is not clear that GOP leaders will put the document on the House floor for a vote, and even if it were to pass the House, the budget would have little impact on actual spending levels.
Nonetheless the budget serves as an expression of Republicans priorities at a time of rapidly rising deficits and debt. Although the nations growing indebtedness has been exacerbated by the GOPs own policy decisions including the new tax law, which most analyses say will add at least $1 trillion to the debt Republicans on the Budget Committee said they felt a responsibility to put the nation on a sounder fiscal trajectory.
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Paul Ryan's wet dream
thucythucy
(8,086 posts)How else to pay for those tax cuts for the rich, not to mention fancy furniture, soundproof booths, trips to golf resorts, and a defense budget so stuffed with pork it makes Hormel look positively vegan?
GeorgeGist
(25,323 posts)YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)Responsibility? Oh hell no.