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Budget talks imploded Tuesday when Mr. Trump said Democrats were trying to cause a government shutdown over immigration and jabbed them over Twitter, causing Democratic leaders to pull out of a White House meeting. (foxbusiness.com)
RAGAR: Earlier this week, Rosendale was one of just five House Republicans to side with Democrats against GOP leaders' proposal to fund defense spending over the next year, leading to the bill's demise. (npr.org)
That left the appropriations measure without enough backing to pass, since Democrats have already raised objections to the Republicans' proposed limits on abortion access for troops and other social issues in the measure. (navytimes.com)
In a bid to move these issues, House Democrats inserted into their version of a budget bill the option of a fast-track process called reconciliation. (csmonitor.com)
Anticipating this move, 33 senators -- eight Democrats and 25 Republicans -- sent a letter to the Senate Budget Committee earlier this month urging that reconciliation not be used to enact clean energy reform. (csmonitor.com)
Sen. Eddie Melton (D-Gary) said Republicans adopted several proposals Democrats have offered when it comes to increasing teacher pay and overall K-12 education funding. (wvpe.org)
WASHINGTON ― With some House Democrats calling President Joe Biden's defense top line too high, it looked like centrist Democrats would have to forge an alliance with Republicans to get defense bills passed. (militarytimes.com)
Cheney also signaled that Republicans would resist the possible inclusion of measures to address climate change through the defense budget ― just as Democrats and some Republicans, including Cheney, opposed Trump's diversion of defense funds to the border wall. (militarytimes.com)
Just after House Democrats released their budget this week, the Republican Study Committee has come out with its own proposal to balance the budget in just four years. (crfb.org)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Republicans on Monday introduced a plan to provide $14.3 billion in aid to Israel by cutting funding for the Internal Revenue Service, setting up a showdown with Democrats who control the Senate. (yahoo.com)
Democrats accused Republicans of stalling Congress' ability to help Israel by introducing a partisan bill. (yahoo.com)
While I agree the oil export ban should be lifted, Republicans shouldn't have fallen victim to Democrats' extortion tactics. (townhall.com)
Rather than giving in to Democrats' renewable-energy demands, the Republican leadership should have threatened to ax or reduce funding for current programs Democrats and Obama support, such as Obamacare subsidies or tax credits for energy efficiency upgrades. (townhall.com)
But then there was the vote in March of last year, when 219 Democrats, but no Republicans, voted to approve Mr. Obama's health care bill . (fivethirtyeight.com)
Democrats, however, are also more unified than normal, with the unanimity of their vote today coupled with Mr. Obama's budget address on Wednesday, in which he criticized the Republican approach. (fivethirtyeight.com)
Democrats and President Joe Biden have already rejected the Republican budget. (nbc4i.com)
Even if this budget does bring Democrats to the table, they are far from finding common ground. (nbc4i.com)
Republican legislators in Sacramento sound as if they're ready to cave to the tax-and-spend Democrats and blow nearly $10 BILLION in your tax dollars. (savecalifornia.com)
Berger said it's his understanding that about 40 House Republicans would vote yes, which would mean about 20 Democrats would also have to vote yes to pass the measure. (whqr.org)
Previous gambling legislation has divided House Democrats, and Gov. Roy Cooper on Monday voiced reservations about tying gambling to the budget bill. (whqr.org)
Republicans hold 52 Senate seats, far short of the 60 needed to end any talkathon filibuster by Democrats. (medscape.com)

2012-03-21T00:42:52-04:00 https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwaWN0dXJlcy5jLXNwYW52aWRlby5vcmciLCJrZXkiOiJGaWxlc1wvMmZiXC8zMDQ5OTQtbS5qcGciLCJlZGl0cyI6eyJyZXNpemUiOnsiZml0IjoiY292ZXIiLCJoZWlnaHQiOjUwNn19fQ== Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan (R-WI) and other House Republican leaders spoke to reporters about their fiscal year 2013 budget proposal. (c-span.org)
Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan (R-WI) and other House Republican leaders spoke to reporters about their fiscal year 2013 budget proposal. (c-span.org)
Jonathan Allen talked about some of the details in the House Republican fiscal year 2013 budget proposal. (c-span.org)
Members debated a Republican budget proposal. (c-span.org)
There are some Republican proposals that would add to the debt, but the most recent Republican Study Committee budget proposal also includes deep spending cuts, which would trim deficits far more than Biden proposed doing. (factcheck.org)
This week, even before the president's budget was released, the Republican chairmen of the budget committees announced they would not even hold hearings with the White House budget director to discuss the proposal. (barbrastreisand.com)
He attacked the GOP latest budget proposal as a "recipe for economic decline," and tried to reframe this year's election campaign. (kcrw.com)
President Barack Obama several weeks ago laid out his budget proposal for fiscal year 2013 and his vision for the federal government over the coming decade. (americanprogress.org)
Gov. Eric Holcomb and top Republican lawmakers announced the latest budget proposal Tuesday, which includes the state's biggest investment in K-12 education - nearly $2 billion in state funding for schools over the next two years. (wvpe.org)
I would clearly oppose budgets that were below that number, and I think we're going to have a very healthy debate and discussion about the administration's proposal because it is coming in significantly below that number. (militarytimes.com)
Like the Ryan budget, it block grants Medicaid, but freezes the grants at FY 2015 levels for ten years, saving almost $460 billion more than Ryan's proposal. (crfb.org)
Last month the President introduced his 2013 budget proposal. (mml.org)
The budget proposal as presented by Congressman Ryan would cut spending by $5.3 trillion over 10 years and set the spending cap for 2013 at $1.028 trillion, some $19 billion less than what was adopted in August. (mml.org)
In stark contrast to President Barack Obama's FY 2017 budget proposal to invest in the middle class and grow our economy, House leadership's proposal calls for massive spending cuts that would devastate working families without raising even a dime of new revenue from the wealthiest Americans or big corporations. (americanprogress.org)
For the first time, Republican leaders have offered a specific budget proposal. (nbc4i.com)
But Republicans are using this new proposal to try to jump-start a discussion. (nbc4i.com)
Chairman Brooks criticized the President's overall budget proposal, saying "It is not sustainable. (house.gov)
His own budget proposal this year would have blocked upcoming tax reductions already on the books for the highest wage earners and corporations, but Republicans ignored the idea. (wfdd.org)

By law, dating back to 1921, the president of the United States must submit an annual budget request to Congress. (barbrastreisand.com)
And that's why he admires his representative in Congress, Republican Matt Rosendale, who's defying the leaders of his own party. (npr.org)
But the standoff further exacerbates tensions surrounding all of Congress' undone budget work. (navytimes.com)
Introduced in the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, reconciliation was designed to help Congress reduce the deficit. (csmonitor.com)
Cheney's remarks came a day after the top Republican on the House's Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee, Rep. Rob Wittman of Virginia, called for the Pentagon's budget to be increased to $753 billion, which is $38 billion more than Biden's request and 3 percent above the $731.3 billion Congress approved for fiscal 2021. (militarytimes.com)
Smith has warned that the White House's sluggish release of its budget plans are endangering Congress' ability to finish budget work before the start of the new fiscal year, Oct. 1, 2021. (militarytimes.com)
In the meantime, members are encouarged to adopt a resolution urging Congress to take a balanced approach to the budget. (mml.org)
The balanced-budget amendment once came within one vote of passing Congress but was defeated because of the no vote from a top Senate Republican, and Rick Santorum says he 'stood up and called for him to resign his chairmanship. (politifact.com)
asserted that the balanced budget amendment came within one vote of passing Congress and going to the states during his first year in the Senate. (politifact.com)
He said the $18 billion increase is aimed at filling crucial gaps in the $583 billion defense budget Obama submitted to Congress earlier this month. (allgov.com)
PHILADELPHIA (CNN) -- Congress may pay for the border wall through a special spending bill being hashed out over the next two months, footing the cost of President Donald Trump's priority before seeking any refund from Mexico, Republican lawmakers said Wednesday. (news5cleveland.com)
Chairman Brooks concluded, "NSF has a long and proven track record, one in which we are all proud, and I have every reason to believe NSF will continue this good work with whatever budgets are forthcoming from Congress. (house.gov)
On August 2, 2011, President Obama signed the Budget Control Act of 2011 as part of an agreement with Congress to resolve the debt-ceiling crisis. (wikipedia.org)
Some 2.6 million Americans would lose their jobs and the economy would shudder if a Republican-controlled Congress repeals key provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) without passing healthcare reforms of their own, a new study shows. (medscape.com)

President Joe Biden has repeatedly tried to flip the script about the GOP claiming to be the party of fiscal responsibility, saying Republicans' plans would add $3 trillion to the debt over the next decade. (factcheck.org)
The biggest deficit driver highlighted by Biden is Republican efforts to extend the tax cuts championed by then-President Donald Trump in 2017. (factcheck.org)
They're set to expire after 2025 , and extending them, as the Republican Study Committee budget released last summer proposes, would add $2.7 trillion to the debt over 10 years, Biden says. (factcheck.org)
In other words, Biden is cherry-picking Republican priorities that would add to the deficit, while ignoring that Republicans are also calling for spending cuts that would more than make up for those losses. (factcheck.org)
The truth is, if you look at their [Republicans'] record, it's clear they're not the party who cares about fiscal responsibility," Biden said at the House Democratic Caucus Issues Conference on March 1. (factcheck.org)
By contrast, Biden said the budget he plans to introduce in coming days would "cut the deficit by $2 trillion in 10 years. (factcheck.org)
In a speech the day before, and in a fact sheet released by the White House, Biden laid out the details for his claim that Republican proposals would add $3 trillion to the debt. (factcheck.org)
The fact sheet cites the Republican efforts to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, which included several deficit-reducing provisions that Biden highlighted in his speeches. (factcheck.org)
First on the fact sheet's list is the Republican efforts to rescind nearly $80 billion in new funding for the IRS included in the Inflation Reduction Act championed by Biden. (factcheck.org)
After Biden delivered his State of the Union address, Republican Sen. Rick Scott put out an ad that made the misleading claim that the law would cut Medicare by $280 billion. (factcheck.org)
Only four of the 21 House conservatives who tanked a temporary spending package Friday that Speaker Kevin McCarthy's team repeatedly revised hail from districts President Joe Biden lost by less than 10 points, and 18 have races next year rated Solid Republican by Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales. (rollcall.com)
The White House has delayed releasing its detailed fiscal 2022 budget request until later in the spring, but Biden has released a top-line request of $715 billion for the Pentagon, a 1.6 percent increase that's roughly flat when adjusted for inflation. (militarytimes.com)
The House Armed Services Committee's top Republican, Rep. Mike Rogers of Alabama, urged Biden toward the 3-5 percent boost, as has the Senate Armed Services Committee's top Republican, Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma. (militarytimes.com)
All subsequent administrations, except the Biden administration, have issued formal publicly available guidance on budget neutrality. (house.gov)
The Biden administration altered the calculation of budget neutrality during the Summer of 2022, with modifications to the Special Terms and Conditions concerning how states utilize Section 1115 demonstrations to fund health-related social needs, Designated State Health Programs, and the process of updating budget neutrality mid-demonstration, meaning that such calculations are no longer budget neutral. (house.gov)
The Committee is concerned about the lack of transparency and consistency in how CMS, under the Biden administration, determines policy development and compliance with budget neutrality requirements. (house.gov)
WASHINGTON ― The Biden administration is portraying plans from Republicans to gut the federal budget as jeopardizing national security ― the latest salvo in the partisan war over spending levels. (marinecorpstimes.com)

That is particularly important in the Senate, where Republicans hold 52 seats, but most bills require 60 votes to clear procedural hurdles. (foxbusiness.com)

On Tuesday, President Obama submitted his eighth and final budget. (barbrastreisand.com)
President Obama flayed his Republican opposition today as so far right that, "Ronald Reagan could not get through a Republican primary today. (kcrw.com)
House leaders rolled out a big gun this week in the budget wars on Capitol Hill that could tip the outcome for top priorities in President Obama 's first budget -- energy, education, and healthcare. (csmonitor.com)
But of the 60 Republicans who come from districts where President Obama won at least 50 percent of the vote in 2008, 59 voted yea, the only exception being Mr. Reichert. (fivethirtyeight.com)

At the Wall Street Journal , Kristina Peterson reports that the Senate GOP's upcoming budget will call for "block granting" Medicaid and food stamps. (vox.com)
If Republicans simply proposed cutting Medicaid by hundreds of billions of dollars, then the cuts would be described as, well, cuts, possibly with the word "draconian" in front of them. (vox.com)
That's how the Republican budget actually saves money in Medicaid and food stamps. (vox.com)
As the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities explains , federal spending on Medicaid "would rise annually with inflation and population growth. (vox.com)
Another way of putting this is that the House GOP's 2015 budget doesn't cut Medicaid spending by moving to block grants. (vox.com)
It could make the same cut absent a block grant: Republicans could mandate that federal contributions to Medicaid rise with inflation and population growth, and if there's a gap between that number and a state's needs, it's on the state to figure it out. (vox.com)
His blueprint identified savings in nearly every area of the budget, including Medicare and Medicaid. (americanprogress.org)
In 2011 the House Republican budget-the one that replaced traditional Medicare with a system of vouchers, slashed Medicaid by a quarter, and cut taxes for the wealthy while increasing the burden for the middle class-met some pretty stiff resistance from the American people. (americanprogress.org)
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Health Chair Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Morgan Griffith (R-VA), on behalf of the Health and Oversight Subcommittee Republicans, sent letters to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and Government Accountability Office (GAO) regarding changes to budget neutrality in parts of the Medicaid program. (house.gov)
Section 1115 of the Social Security Act allows states to pilot distinct approaches within their Medicaid programs to address their unique population health care needs while adhering to the principle of budget neutrality. (house.gov)
A pivotal requirement for these demonstrations, grounded in the clause "must not result in increased cost to the Federal Government under part A of such title" from Section 1115 of the SSA concerning Medicaid waivers, aligns with the principle of budget neutrality. (house.gov)
The Committee is also concerned about the potential for fraud, waste, and abuse in the calculation and application of states' budget neutrality limits under Section 1115 Medicaid waivers. (house.gov)
We write today to request that the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) conduct a review of recent changes the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has made related to the budget neutrality requirement for Medicaid demonstrations. (house.gov)
Faced with these cuts, states would either have to make up the difference from their own budgets or cut Medicaid coverage, services, provider reimbursement rates, or some combination. (cbpp.org)
He said Medicaid accounts for about $4 billion of the $5 billion Department of Social Services budget that's in addition to what it costs to insure the state employees and retirees. (ctnewsjunkie.com)
A requirement in the Medicaid expansion law that Cooper signed in March that says a state budget law must be enacted before expansion can be implemented may force the governor to swallow policy provisions in the budget that he's uncertain about or dislikes. (wfdd.org)
No budget, no Medicaid transformation? (northcarolinahealthnews.org)
But, a now months-long state budget standoff between Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, and Republican legislative leaders is threatening to get in the way of that start date as the opposing sides battle over the separate, but related, issue of expanding Medicaid. (northcarolinahealthnews.org)
Or, when the legislature comes back into town this week, some type of agreement to keep Medicaid transformation on track, or a budget itself. (northcarolinahealthnews.org)

Mr. Obama's budget proposes to spend $4 trillion in the 2017 fiscal year (slightly more than for 2016). (barbrastreisand.com)
In a last ditch effort to secure a deal on a 2017 budget, House Republicans have created what they are describing as a budget "SWAT team. (mcdonaldhopkins.com)
The 34 GOP lawmakers, all members of the House Armed Services Committee , are pressing for an $18 billion increase in the 2017 budget year, which begins Oct. 1. (allgov.com)

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimated the Medicare provisions in the bill, including a drug price inflation cap, would reduce federal deficits by about $159 billion over 10 years. (factcheck.org)
What is the Republican plan to strengthen Medicare? (barbrastreisand.com)
On Medicare, it enacts cost-sharing reforms like those in one of CBO's health budget options . (crfb.org)
Since the cuts in the House budget are not a realistic solution for the nation's long-term budget challenges, House leaders will eventually have to decide whether to accept the need for more revenue or push for deeper but highly unpopular cuts to the two largest federal programs-Social Security and Medicare. (americanprogress.org)

But that budget also includes $16.6 trillion in spending cuts, and purports to balance the federal budget in seven years. (factcheck.org)
Republicans often use block grants to hide massive spending cuts, and you can see why in the language Peterson uses. (vox.com)
But Republicans tend to use them as a justification for an unrelated policy: massive spending cuts. (vox.com)
The chamber was set to vote on the $826 billion plan last week, but Republican leaders shelved the legislation after members of the GOP's right-of-right Freedom Caucus indicated they would not support the bill without promises of additional cuts to non-defense spending. (navytimes.com)
House Republicans are setting a dangerous precedent by suggesting that protecting national security or responding to natural disasters is contingent upon cuts to other programs,' Representative Rosa DeLauro, the ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, said in a statement. (yahoo.com)
While the House budget would devastate struggling families through huge cuts to low-income programs, it still does not present a realistic plan to balance the budget. (americanprogress.org)
Trillions of dollars of unspecified cuts from block grants and unrealistic caps on annual appropriations do not a balanced budget make. (americanprogress.org)
In addition, Fedele said he would go through the budget line-by-line and look for cuts and efficiencies. (ctnewsjunkie.com)
In addition to those three cuts, Foley said he would cut the $23 million attorney general's budget because filing lawsuits that make it hard to do business in the state is not helpful. (ctnewsjunkie.com)
State Department and Pentagon officials said in letters to Capitol Hill on Monday that cuts floated by Republicans would harm efforts to deter and compete with China and "effectively zero out" aid to Ukraine . (marinecorpstimes.com)
However, Republicans have also since come out against cuts to defense, which makes them less likely but leaves nondefense programs vulnerable. (marinecorpstimes.com)
The House Appropriations Committee's top Democrat, Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, sent a letter in January to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and the leaders of all other federal agencies seeking more details on the impact of fiscal cuts by House Republicans. (marinecorpstimes.com)
Cooper has said he's considering vetoing the budget over a variety of issues, including additional tax cuts and the expansion of private school vouchers. (whqr.org)
Cooper has opposed repeatedly across-the-board individual and corporate tax cuts already enacted by Republicans because he believes they unfairly benefit the wealthy. (wfdd.org)
As a result of the Budget Control Act of 2011, a set of automatic spending cuts to United States federal government spending in particular of outlays were initially set to begin on January 1, 2013. (wikipedia.org)
The Republican House had narrowly passed a bill on December 20, 2012, which would have replaced only the defense side of the sequester with cuts to programs including food stamps, Dodd-Frank and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. (wikipedia.org)
Nevertheless, many Republicans believed that the bill would serve as a template for what they wanted: no tax increases, no defense cuts, and considerable domestic spending reductions. (wikipedia.org)
Patty Murray, Democratic Chairwoman of the Senate Budget Committee, proposed on February 14 to replace the 2013 sequester with $110 billion in spending cuts and tax increases. (wikipedia.org)

Unlike Ryan's and President Obama's budgets, the RSC budget attempts to address the funding shortfall facing Social Security. (crfb.org)
While the final budget bill doesn't explicitly appropriate funding for Obama's GCF commitment, neither does it block such funding. (townhall.com)
In January 2009, Republicans unanimously opposed Mr. Obama's economic stimulus package, despite his being very popular and the stimulus package polling reasonably well at the time. (fivethirtyeight.com)

If the House Republican caucus, led by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), learned its lesson from last year, it will propose a far more reasonable plan this year and thus lay the groundwork for real negotiations that could perhaps result in actual progress. (americanprogress.org)
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin introduced the bill on March 20th and one day later, it was voted out of committee by one vote. (mml.org)

If you add up the proposals … my Republican friends have offered just so far, what they've offered these now - it would add more than $3 trillion to the debt over 10 years. (factcheck.org)
If Republicans had compelling ideas and a similar commitment to progress, they would engage with the proposals in the budget. (barbrastreisand.com)
That, or they could double-down on the unworkable and unpopular policy proposals that underpinned last year's budget debacle. (americanprogress.org)
Watch for the level of detail in the new House budget plan too, which will indicate just how serious they are about debating the merits of their proposals. (americanprogress.org)
It's another year, but Americans continue to see the same old and tired budget proposals from House Republican leaders. (americanprogress.org)
Since it covers almost every part of state government, the budget gives the Freedom Caucus members the opportunity to suggest changes directly on the House floor instead having to first get them past a committee, where the proposals could have died a quiet death. (sclawyersweekly.com)
Republicans against the idea said the proposals were sloppy since the money could be removed from any program at the colleges. (sclawyersweekly.com)

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) - Republicans are laying out their demands in the high stakes debt ceiling fight. (nbc4i.com)

Interestingly enough, Freedom Caucus Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) is a member of the budget SWAT team, even though his Freedom Caucus has been the most vocal opponents of Ryan's budget approach. (mcdonaldhopkins.com)
The heated debates were driven by a group of anywhere from 12 to 20 of the chamber's most conservative Republicans who call themselves the Freedom Caucus. (sclawyersweekly.com)
By getting to bring their amendments before the full House, the Freedom Caucus can use those votes to either try to force other Republicans their direction or as fodder for a Republican primary challenge. (sclawyersweekly.com)
During budget week, we're trying to pass legislation instead of the budget," said Rep. Neal Collins, a Republican from Easley who tweeted last week that the Freedom Caucus was more concerned with scoring political points than governing. (sclawyersweekly.com)
In response, the caucus tweeted that Collins is the House's most liberal Republican. (sclawyersweekly.com)
As I mentioned, it is all funded by taxpayers," said Rep. Adam Morgan, a Republican from Taylors who leads the Freedom Caucus. (sclawyersweekly.com)

And so as we look at the potential for billions of dollars being redirected - for example, for climate change projects - I would have the same views about those as I did when we were seeing billions of dollars being redirected out of the defense budget to build the wall. (militarytimes.com)
Critics of boosting the Defense Department 's budget by billions of dollars say Obama hasn't gutted the armed forces. (allgov.com)
Lawmakers had aimed to get a two-year state budget in place before the current fiscal year started July 1, but negotiations slowed over taxes and how to distribute billions of dollars for reserves. (wfdd.org)

John Shaw talked about the House Republican budget plan for fiscal year 2013. (c-span.org)
St. Joseph Republican Senator Rob Schaaf says Gov. Jay Nixon and his staff did not provide data to House and Senate economists on which to base their higher revenue projections for fiscal year 2015. (mdn.org)
She said budgets should ideally be presented to her two weeks before the end of the fiscal year, which is Sept. 30, and she hopes to avoid a government shutdown. (wkar.org)
Washington D.C. - The Subcommittee on Research and Science Education today held a hearing to examine the Administration's proposed fiscal year 2013 (FY13) budget request for the National Science Foundation (NSF). (house.gov)
The debate's resolution, the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (ATRA), eliminated much of the tax side of the dispute but only delayed the budget sequestrations for two months, thus reducing the original $110 billion to be saved per fiscal year to $85 billion in 2013. (wikipedia.org)

It isn't surprising that the House Republicans approved Paul Ryan's budget plan , which had been endorsed by their leadership. (fivethirtyeight.com)
So far, no polls have been conducted on Mr. Ryan's budget as a whole. (fivethirtyeight.com)

Even in the House, Republicans often balk at spending bills, forcing GOP leaders to rely on Democratic votes. (foxbusiness.com)
As a federal government shutdown looms, a handful of Republicans in the House are blocking spending bills. (npr.org)
Without a full series of new appropriations bills for all federal agencies or a short-term budget extension by then, government funding will lapse, forcing a partial government shutdown . (navytimes.com)
Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is telling Republican legislative leaders to send her budget bills this week, so she has time to review and sign them before a Sept. 30 deadline. (wkar.org)
Meanwhile, we do have to pay our bills," Rep. Chris Collins, a New York Republican and Trump ally, said Wednesday. (news5cleveland.com)

One of our whoppers of the year for 2022 was the false Republican talking point that the IRS funding paid for "87,000 IRS agents" who were coming after the "middle class. (factcheck.org)
House Republicans have reportedly pledged to cut federal spending for fiscal 2024 back to their fiscal 2022 levels as part of a January deal to elect Rep. Kevin McCarthy , R-Calif., as speaker. (marinecorpstimes.com)

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the enhanced enforcement, less the cost of that enforcement, will result in a net $114 billion reduction in deficits over 10 years. (factcheck.org)
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that will raise $222 billion over 10 years. (factcheck.org)
Congressional Republicans, unable to break free of their no-new-taxes-ever stance, have derided the oil tax. (barbrastreisand.com)
With funding from some of the biggest donors in Democrat politics, Brock's new nonprofit group, "Facts First USA," plans undermine congressional Republicans as soon as they take control the House of Representatives. (americanthinker.com)
Nobody's been sworn in yet, and some of the congressional seats are still being determined in blue states, but Brock is right there to announce his outrage, as if the acts he abhors had already been done, flashing a $5-million budget. (americanthinker.com)
For more recent analysis reflecting the Congressional Budget Office's cost estimates, please see CBO: 24 Million People Would Lose Coverage Under House Republican Health Plan . (cbpp.org)
House Republican leaders have made the unusual choice to bring their plan to a vote in the House Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means Committees without public Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis of its effects on coverage and spending and revenues. (cbpp.org)
WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republicans urging a steep increase in the Pentagon's budget have received $10 million in campaign contributions over the course of their congressional careers from defense contractors that would benefit from higher levels of military spending. (allgov.com)
Congressional Republicans escaped Washington Wednesday to try to focus on top issues -- including replacing Obamacare. (news5cleveland.com)
Asked about whether they were concerned about the White House not coordinating with congressional Republicans on their message and roll outs, Thune chalked up the bumpy start to a new administration in "transition" and noted that even the House and Senate Republicans often find themselves on opposite pages. (news5cleveland.com)
However, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the total federal outlays would continue to increase even with the sequester by an average of $238.6 billion per year: 3 during the following decade, although at a somewhat lesser rate. (wikipedia.org)
Congressional Republicans and President-elect Donald Trump have vowed to repeal the ACA and replace it with a more free-market approach to extending health insurance coverage to more Americans, perhaps preserving some ACA reforms such as banning exclusions based on pre-existing conditions. (medscape.com)
They cite a Congressional Budget Office analysis of a partial repeal bill from 2015, an analysis that did not specify "alternative uses for these savings. (medscape.com)

(Charleston, WV) - The House Republican health bill would be particularly harmful to West Virginia's rural communities, according to a new report released today by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities . (wvpolicy.org)

And like all presidential budgets, it is a statement of values and priorities, a blueprint for turning ideas into policies, a map of where the president wants to lead the country. (barbrastreisand.com)
To evaluate the Department of Defense's FY24 budget request for missile defense and defeat programs, and review the associated policy, priorities, and requirements. (house.gov)

If Republicans have a plan to pay for the necessary work of government while eliminating deficits entirely, they should present it. (barbrastreisand.com)
The state Legislature's influential budget committee is crafting its spending plan for the next two years. (wpr.org)
What Will Be in the House Republican Budget Plan? (americanprogress.org)
The budget plan also includes, for the first time, a mandate on teacher pay: schools must spend 45 percent of the per-pupil funding they get on educator salaries. (wvpe.org)
Lawmakers also plan on including language in the budget pushing schools to offer a minimum teacher salary of $40,000 a year, and if a school can't meet that benchmark, they'll be required to offer an explanation to the state in writing. (wvpe.org)
The RSC budget directs the Ways and Means Committee to come up with a tax reform plan that reduces the top individual and corporate rates to 25 percent, reduces capital gains and dividends tax rates to 15 percent, repeals the estate tax, and replaces the Earned Income Tax Credit with a payroll tax exemption, among other changes. (crfb.org)
House Republican Health Plan Shifts $370. (cbpp.org)
[1] The House Republican health care plan announced this week violates that promise. (cbpp.org)
Republicans last week began advancing parts of their proposed budget without a deal with Whitmer, after the sides agreed to table talks on a long-term road-funding plan. (wkar.org)
The best part of my plan to balance the budget is that it will actually work," Santorum wrote. (politifact.com)
The Administration's plan to require Pennsylvania to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) drew strong opposition during today's Senate Appropriations Hearing on the Department of Environmental Protection's (DEP) proposed budget. (pasenategop.com)
Republican lawmakers had said they planned to vote on a $30 billion spending plan this week. (whqr.org)
She already nixed a plan to roll-out managed care in a portion of the state this fall over the budget delays. (northcarolinahealthnews.org)

Do they think $11 billion to fight ISIS, as the budget proposes, is too much? (barbrastreisand.com)
The budget proposes a $10-a-barrel tax on crude oil to help pay for $320 billion in new spending over 10 years on clean-energy transportation projects. (barbrastreisand.com)
The budget would also raise $272 billion over the next decade by closing tax loopholes that let high-income owners of limited-liability companies and other so-called pass-through businesses avoid investment taxes that apply to all other investors. (barbrastreisand.com)
If we pass these budgets and send 36 billion dollars of budgets to the governor, this is insanity. (cbsnews.com)
To get a sense of potential savings, under last year's House GOP budget, converting the food-stamp programs into a block grant starting in 2019 would have saved $125 billion over 10 years. (vox.com)
The announcement comes after the latest revenue forecast estimates an additional $2 billion for the budget debated in the House and Senate earlier this year, and education groups urged the state to "go big" on K-12 spending and teacher pay. (wvpe.org)
By 2024, the budget produces a surplus of nearly $300 billion, or 1.1 percent of GDP. (crfb.org)
Total discretionary budget authority is reduced below sequester levels, frozen at $950 billion through 2018 and allowed to grow at about 2 percent per year after that. (crfb.org)
In one of the first major policy actions under new House Speaker Mike Johnson, House Republicans unveiled a standalone supplemental spending bill only for Israel, despite Democratic President Joe Biden's request for a $106 billion package that would include aid for Israel, Ukraine and border security. (yahoo.com)
That's how the three Republicans seeking to become Connecticut's next governor-R. Nelson "Oz" Griebel, Lt. Gov. Michael Fedele, and Tom Foley-said they'd address the state's $3.4 billion budget deficit, as they met in their final debate before the Aug. 10 primary. (ctnewsjunkie.com)
I will not submit a budget over next four years that has $1 more of spending in it than the $17.7 billion that's currently in the general operating fund," Griebel said Wednesday during the hour long debate. (ctnewsjunkie.com)
A rollback to FY22 levels would include a $2 billion cut to the State Department's security sector assistance budget, according to the seven-page letter from Naz Durakoğlu and Jodi Herman, the respective legislative affairs chiefs for the department and the U.S. Agency for International Development. (marinecorpstimes.com)
To the Pentagon, a rollback to FY22 levels would mean a $100 billion - or nearly 12% - budget cut, compared to Biden's FY24 budget request of $842 billion, McCord said in his three-page letter to DeLauro. (marinecorpstimes.com)
With a current annual budget of $7 billion, NSF is the funding source for over 20 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by America's colleges and universities, as well as the primary source of federal funding for non-medical basic research. (house.gov)
The FY13 budget request for NSF is $7.4 billion, an increase of $340 million over the FY12 estimated level. (house.gov)

Last year's budget debate, also taking place when the state accounts were flush with cash, took only a day. (sclawyersweekly.com)

Republicans fought to end these subsidies for years, and now, barely a year after victoriously allowing them to lapse, Republicans are making a Faustian bargain to bring them back for five years - rather than the single year that has been the norm recently. (townhall.com)

The RSC budget adds yet another approach to reducing deficits and debt, being the most aggressive of the plans that have come out. (crfb.org)
Republicans also asked about Mass Transit spending and ways we can modernize our approach to programs and funding. (pahousegop.com)

Wisconsin Republican state lawmakers announced Thursday that the University of Wisconsin System budget will be cut by $32 million, after raising concerns that the system's focus on the 'new religion' of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion was leading to wasteful spedning. (legalinsurrection.com)

Reinstituting LWCF without significant reform is just another example of the irresponsible actions we've seen from the Republican leadership over the past decade. (townhall.com)

Efforts to improve Pennsylvania's Statewide Uniform Registry of Electors (SURE) and the Administration's failure to engage with local communities regarding the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative were key topics discussed at today's Senate Appropriations Committee budget hearings with the Department of State and Department of Environmental Protection. (pasenategop.com)

Sen. John Thune, the Senate's No. 3 Republican who is co-hosting this week's retreat, responded to reports that Trump may seek to re-open CIA "blacksites" by noting that the issue was "settled law," and Trump would likely have trouble changing the ban on the use of torture. (news5cleveland.com)
Instead, this week's fight was between groups of Republicans over social issues more tangential to the budget, including university diversity inititiatives. (sclawyersweekly.com)

The RSC budget block grants and reduces food stamp funding, increases federal employee pension contributions, reduces Pell Grants, reduces agriculture subsidies, and reduces transportation spending, among other things. (crfb.org)
In exchange for allowing the export ban to be lifted, the Republican leadership resurrected the massive energy-market-distorting, budget-busting subsidies and tax credits for the unreliable wind and solar power industries. (townhall.com)

Legislative leaders are calling the new state budget a "historic win" for teachers, students and schools. (wvpe.org)
The Montana Democratic Party left dozens of legislative seats go uncontested last year, helping guarantee a Republican majority. (wunc.org)
North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper said on Tuesday he's skeptical that an apparent tax agreement by Republican legislative leaders within a state budget that's still being negotiated would over time protect revenues to fund pressing needs within government. (wfdd.org)
Lawmakers, including State Rep. Donny Lambeth , a Forsyth County Republican leader on health care issues, suggested at a legislative hearing last month that Cohen start thinking about a July start date for managed care instead of February. (northcarolinahealthnews.org)

House Republicans will try again this week to advance their funding outline for the Defense Department in fiscal 2024, just a few days after far-right lawmakers derailed leadership's plans to move ahead on the budget measure . (navytimes.com)
Rep. Liz Cheney, a high-profile Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, said the lack of 3-5 percent growth above inflation in the defense budget would be a "red line" for her and other Republicans. (militarytimes.com)
In my view, that is a red line, and if the administration is not going to be proposing a budget that meets that requirement, then I think they will need to explain to the American people why they're unwilling to fund defense at the levels the nation needs," the Wyoming representative told the McAleese Defense Programs Conference. (militarytimes.com)
The Senate's top Republican has challenged the president to boost defense spending to show the Democrat is serious about working with Republicans to confront China. (militarytimes.com)
Republicans' remarks highlight the challenges for House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith, D-Wash., as he works to build consensus around the annual National Defense Authorization Act. (militarytimes.com)
Two Republicans whose districts include parts of Virginia's defense-industry rich Hampton Roads area tallied the second and third highest amounts. (allgov.com)
Thornberry, Forbes, Wittman and the 31 other Republican members of the armed services committee spelled out their argument for more defense spending in an 11-page letter sent to the chairman of the House Budget Committee a few days before the president delivered his defense budget. (allgov.com)

In January, Republicans in the House passed a bill to ax that funding. (factcheck.org)
Who are the House Republicans who opposed the stopgap budget bill? (rollcall.com)
Plenty of Republicans might not like the budget deal, but only one of them, apparently, despises the deal enough to side against GOP leadership on the procedural votes for the bill - perhaps the last best chance for conservative members to sink the budget compromise. (rollcall.com)
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre issued a statement accusing Republicans of 'politicizing national security' and calling their bill a non-starter. (yahoo.com)
The House Rules Committee is expected to consider the Republican Israel bill on Wednesday. (yahoo.com)
I'm not sure who is naughtier: Republicans for passing this pork-filled, harmful bill, or the American people who elected them. (townhall.com)
It's called "the Budget Repair bill. (memeorandum.com)
The first bill I cosponsored in the Senate was the balanced budget amendment, but we came within one vote of passing it. (politifact.com)
Dave Reichert, a Republican from suburban Seattle whose district leans Democratic, declined to vote on the bill. (fivethirtyeight.com)
In addition to these Republicans, the idiosyncratic Ron Paul voted against the bill, as did Walter B. Jones of North Carolina, but both come from extremely safe districts. (fivethirtyeight.com)
Although it is hard to see the electoral upside in the Republicans' budget vote, a greater amount of intraparty dissent could have conceivably made the bill seem less credible and less popular, deepening the downside case. (fivethirtyeight.com)
Earlier, Ryan told lawmakers gathered in Philadelphia for a private retreat this week that they could pay for the wall through a supplemental appropriations bill -- a spending measure that would be dedicated just to the wall, according to Republicans in the room and a GOP lawmaker. (news5cleveland.com)
My hope is, is that an agreement can be reached very quickly, to go ahead and move forward with the budget, as it's been agreed upon-without the gaming provisions-and then just run the gaming as a standalone bill," he told reporters Tuesday morning. (whqr.org)
If he does so, it's likely all Republicans could need to vote for the budget bill on an override. (whqr.org)
When asked about the prospect that the budget bill could fail to garner enough votes to become law, Berger said, "Well, then I think we need to see whether or not folks are willing to let the budget fail. (whqr.org)
In February with their reduced majority, key Republicans admitted that they would not be able to pass the bill again, even in the House. (wikipedia.org)

It is an open question how much influence Cheney commands with the Republican rank and file, having been ousted from a leadership post this week for vocally opposing former President Donald Trump's unsubstantiated claims the 2020 election was stolen. (militarytimes.com)

The actual chintziness of the site is in its weak, blathery content, beginning with its transparent banner overlay of the grayed out faces of Republicans in they really hate - Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Jim Jordan, Kevin McCarthy, a few others. (americanthinker.com)

Only Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert is projected to have a very competitive race next year, rated Tilt Republican by Inside Elections. (rollcall.com)
And Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the House's No. 4 Republican, said: "I think it's very important that people have confidence in the elections and the outcome of those elections. (news5cleveland.com)

Next on Biden's list is the Republican efforts to kill a 15% corporate minimum tax, also included in the IRA. (factcheck.org)

Both House and Senate leaders have said they hope to see progress on a short-term budget deal in the next few days. (navytimes.com)
Senate Democratic leaders say they will not include reconciliation in their version of the budget resolution, but they're not ruling it out. (csmonitor.com)
Leaders also say the budget will include a provision to prevent schools from dropping teacher salaries to levels lower than the previous year, and pays off $600 million of teacher pension debt . (wvpe.org)
Republicans vowed not to fund the Obama administration's discretionary climate programs, including the president's pledged support for the Green Climate Fund (GCF), the United Nations' slush fund for bribing corrupt leaders in developing countries into accepting restrictions on their countries' economic development. (townhall.com)
Republican leaders should know better than to go for this. (savecalifornia.com)
Call the Republican leaders right now, here on Saturday, to tell them "Don't cave in. (savecalifornia.com)

The mayor chooses his words carefully, because he needs legislation to broaden the state sales tax and add a Chicago casino to balance his own budget. (cbsnews.com)
Legislation so far-reaching should be fully vetted and given appropriate time for debate, something the budget reconciliation process does not allow. (csmonitor.com)

Nonetheless, it remains a key talking point for Republicans on the presidential campaign trail. (politifact.com)

Rep. Dan Bishop of North Carolina's race hasn't been rated because of the potential for Tarheel State redistricting, while Nancy Mace of South Carolina's race is rated Likely Republican. (rollcall.com)
A variety of senior Republican lawmakers, ranging from North Carolina's Jesse Helms to Vermont's Jim Jeffords, spoke in favor of Hatfield's right to break ranks on the issue. (politifact.com)
A disagreement over new casinos is leading to more delays for North Carolina's overdue state budget. (whqr.org)

It is a new low in Republican efforts to show disdain for Mr. Obama, which disrespects the presidency and, in the process, suffocates debate and impairs governing. (barbrastreisand.com)
That delay has not only hemmed in the budget debate but pushed back the committee's work. (militarytimes.com)
That announcement came to dominate much of the debate among Republican lawmakers gathered in Philadelphia. (news5cleveland.com)

The RSC budget repeals the Affordable Care Act's coverage expansions and replaces them with a standard deduction for purchasing health insurance, an expansion of Health Savings Accounts, tort reform, and other reforms. (crfb.org)

The co-chair of the Legislature's budget-writing committee, Rep. Mark Born, joins the show to discuss ongoing state budget negotiations. (wpr.org)
Wisconsin's Democratic Governor Tony Evers recently announced that he will not sign the state budget if Republicans eliminate any funding for DEI programs. (legalinsurrection.com)
N.C. Department of Health and Human Services Sec. Mandy Cohen has repeatedly said she can't make a Feb. 1 start date work without a state budget in place by mid-November. (northcarolinahealthnews.org)

Republican big guns: Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl of Arizona (center), together with Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, Sen. John Ensign of Nevada, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, at a news conference this week. (csmonitor.com)
On the House floor this week, the discussion was on the edges of the budget. (sclawyersweekly.com)
Earlier this week, US Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY) introduced a budget resolution that would allow lawmakers through a so-called reconciliation process to erase tax and spending provisions of the law with only a 51-vote majority. (medscape.com)

Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-GA) is leading the effort made up of eight GOP House members. (mcdonaldhopkins.com)
Santorum, then only 36 (the New York Times pointed out that Hatfield was first elected governor of Oregon in 1958, the year Santorum was born), called for the veteran lawmaker to be stripped of his committee leadership, as did some other young Republican Turks. (politifact.com)
After Republican-controlled finance committee decided to suspend the vote after failing to come to an agreement on June 11, a UW spokesperson told Campus Reform that the school system was "optimistic" a deal will be reached to fund "high demand fields" like nursing and engineering. (legalinsurrection.com)
On February 8, Democrat Chris Van Hollen, ranking member of the House Budget Committee, introduced new taxes and reduced spending to fend off the sequestration, including a Buffett-style tax-rule on millionaires, a repeal of some oil subsidy loopholes, a reduction in farm subsidy payments and an increase in flood insurance premiums. (wikipedia.org)

Republicans have objected that the president's budget does not do enough to tackle the nation's borrowing. (barbrastreisand.com)
The president's budget request is a detailed and worthy entry in the contest of ideas. (barbrastreisand.com)

The Senate GOP's new budget will be thick with block grants. (vox.com)
The House GOP's 2015 budget changed that. (vox.com)

The problem is that Republicans do not have viable alternatives. (barbrastreisand.com)
House Republicans welcome PennDOT's comments of working together and believe solutions will require out-of-the-box thinking in order to establish a viable long-term source of funding for the Motor License Fund. (pahousegop.com)

A series of brief background reports on issues related to budgets, taxes, and government assistance programs. (cbpp.org)

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