The House on Thursday passed a final budget deal, bringing Republicans one step closer to enacting a spending blueprint that sets the stage for this summer’s spending bills.
The chamber passed the framework, 226-197. It would balance the budget in 10 years without raising taxes, and pave the way for sending an Obamacare repeal to the president’s desk. The Senate will take up the measure next week.
“The new Republican majority in Congress made a commitment to the American people to provide positive solutions to the nation’s challenges, to hold Washington accountable and to restore economic vitality so folks all across our country can realize their dreams and hopes for the future,” said the House’s chief budget negotiator, Tom Price (R-Ga.). “With today’s passage … we have provided a positive vision for how we can achieve those goals.”
It’s a victory for House GOP leadership. Many were skeptical they could pass the document given the intraparty divide between defense hawks demanding more money for the Pentagon and fiscal hawks who wanted leadership to stick with strict spending caps laid out in a 2011 deficit reduction law.
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