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05-05-2015, 07:24 PM #1
Senate passes GOP budget proposal, cuts MEDICARE and Foodstamps
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Senate passes GOP-backed budget plan that boosts defense spending and cuts $5 trillion largely on social programs.
Senate passes GOP budget proposal
By Alexandra Jaffe, CNN
Updated 7:03 PM ET, Tue May 5, 2015
Washington (CNN)The Senate on Tuesday passed a Republican-backed budget blueprint that boosts defense spending while cutting $5 trillion in spending, largely on social programs, to balance in a decade.
Lawmakers approved the blueprint on a 51-48 party-line vote.
RELATED: House passes GOP budget blueprint
Republican 2016 presidential contenders were split on the measure, with Sens. Marco Rubio and Lindsey Graham voting in favor, while Rand Paul and Ted Cruz voted against.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell touted the vote as an example of "sensible" governance from Republicans.
"No budget will ever be perfect, but this is a budget that sensibly addresses the concerns of many different members. It reflects honest compromise from many different members with many different priorities," he said on the Senate floor.
The proposal tightens eligibility rules for food stamps and cuts funding for other social programs, proposing, for instance, $430 billion in savings from Medicare.
And it hikes funding for the Pentagon's war fund -- which is outside of the overall budget, and thus isn't subjected to budget caps previously imposed by lawmakers -- by $38 billion.
It also sets up a showdown with President Barack Obama on his signature legislative accomplishment, the health care reform act.
It includes a provision known as "reconciliation" that allows the Senate to pass legislation repealing Obamacare with a simple majority vote, a sweetener for conservatives. Despite the President's vow to veto any legislation to unravel his health care law, congressional Republicans say they intend to move forward with their effort to scrap it.
The proposal is a non-binding blueprint; it simply sets spending outlines for the coming year. Lawmakers will begin the process of nailing down specific spending bills in the coming weeks.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/05/politics/senate-budget-vote-gop-congress/index.html
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05-05-2015, 10:15 PM #2
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Republican wisdom for all to see. Trying to balance budgets on the backs of the aging and disabled. Any reminders of what the Veterans just went thru with the VA, that is not corrected yet. But throw more money at a war that they claim does not exist. In case it has been forgotten, a war the Bush admin. took us to claiming it was not a war on Islam. Now Bush is from and still resides in Texas, and by their own admission the Islamic State made an attack on TX Sunday night and promised more to come. And Obama insists we are not at war with Islam.
Is it any wonder that we cannot win wars when we do not even go to war against the admitted enemy? Well, from May 3, 2015 it is the Islamic war, they have a state now and one that admits attacking us. That constitutes war! What college did you say we got all these politicians out of? It is past time for closing them and tossing their history away, now! Then we can begin again to teach American history.
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