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Omaha Steve

(99,660 posts)
Mon Apr 27, 2015, 12:09 PM Apr 2015

Compromise GOP budget hikes war funds, targets 'Obamacare'

Source: AP-Excite

By ANDREW TAYLOR
WASHINGTON (AP) — House and Senate GOP negotiators are sealing agreement on a budget blueprint that would enable Republicans to more easily target the Affordable Care Act while delivering an almost $40 billion budget boost to the Pentagon.

The emerging plan drops a controversial House proposal to radically overhaul the Medicare program. And, it eliminates the option of using a fast-track budget bill to target food stamps and Pell Grants. But the plan relies on deep cuts to domestic agency budgets and safety net programs for the poor to promise a balanced budget by 2024.

The measure is not yet finalized, but congressional aides familiar with its outlines say it'll likely made official Monday or Tuesday and be ratified by House and Senate votes this week. The aides spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the record while talks are ongoing.

Read more: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20150427/us--congress-budget-b7e6e3f4a3.html

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Compromise GOP budget hikes war funds, targets 'Obamacare' (Original Post) Omaha Steve Apr 2015 OP
$40 BILLION?!?!? SoapBox Apr 2015 #1
It's a killer budget . . . Roy Rolling Apr 2015 #2
Death Panel for the health of Americans Iliyah Apr 2015 #3
Can budget bills be filibustered? hedda_foil Apr 2015 #4
What would getting rid of the Bush tax cuts do for the deficit? jmowreader Apr 2015 #5
Don't need either of those LiberalLovinLug Apr 2015 #6
Any appropriations bills that follow this dystopian budget will be DOA BumRushDaShow Apr 2015 #7

SoapBox

(18,791 posts)
1. $40 BILLION?!?!?
Mon Apr 27, 2015, 12:21 PM
Apr 2015

For bombs and shit like that?

While the PukeBagger Death Panel wants to make more Americans miserable?

Criminal.

Roy Rolling

(6,918 posts)
2. It's a killer budget . . .
Mon Apr 27, 2015, 12:29 PM
Apr 2015

More money to kill people with bombs and weapons, less money to kill the less-fortunate with bad healthcare and starvation.

What an image of a successful country.


LiberalLovinLug

(14,174 posts)
6. Don't need either of those
Mon Apr 27, 2015, 04:14 PM
Apr 2015

America and the world would be better off if the President vetoed the whole thing, not that he would. The US already spends obscene amounts on the MIC. Seriously...their budget should be halved. In fact I'd like to see $40 billion taken out of the MIC. Or just reduce the waste and corruption and save just as much. I remember decades ago a story of a bolt costing them $100. One they could have gone down to the local hardware store and bought for 10 cents. If it was that bad then, its even worse now. The incestuous relationship with weapons and supply manufacturers headed by ex-generals is criminal.

BumRushDaShow

(129,096 posts)
7. Any appropriations bills that follow this dystopian budget will be DOA
Mon Apr 27, 2015, 05:00 PM
Apr 2015

and will not see the light of day because they won't have enough to override a veto.

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