SHOCKING: Paul Ryan budget passes on partisan vote
Split along party lines, the House approved a new Republican-backed budget Thursday promising to cut by half the 10-year deficits forecast by President Barack Obama but also walking away from the landmark debt accords hammered out last summer.
The 228-191 vote gives the embattled GOP leadership what it most wanted: a show of party unity behind a bold election-year vision that includes new private options for Medicare and a simplified tax code.
But the price paid by Congress is big: wreaking havoc with hard-fought bargains under the Budget Control Act and inviting another shutdown fight with Senate Democrats and Obama unless the House again reverses course.
When lawmakers return in mid-April from their spring recess, House and Senate Appropriations Committees will write their annual spending bills using two sets of instructions now— instead of one as envisioned under the Budget Control Act (BCA). The Republican resolution orders six other House committees to quickly come up with an additional $261 billion in 10-year savings by April 27 to forestall the BCA’s threat of automatic reductions in defense in January.
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