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.
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SoapBox
(18,791 posts)For bombs and shit like that?
While the PukeBagger Death Panel wants to make more Americans miserable?
Criminal.
Roy Rolling
(6,918 posts)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.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)GOPers really do hate the American people.
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)Or will we have to rely on a presidential veto?
jmowreader
(50,560 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,174 posts)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)and will not see the light of day because they won't have enough to override a veto.