GOP may skip budget, kneecapping 2018 ambitions

[mystery-ak]

 GOP may skip budget, kneecapping 2018 ambitions

Lacking the votes and fearing political blowback, Republicans are unlikely to deploy powerful budget procedures to enact their agenda.

By RACHAEL BADE and SARAH FERRIS

01/10/2018 07:15 PM EST

Republican leaders are considering skipping passage of a GOP budget this year — a blow to the party’s weakened fiscal hawks that would squash all 2018 efforts to revamp entitlements or repeal Obamacare.

White House and Hill GOP leaders discussed the possibility of forgoing the painful budget process during last weekend’s Camp David legislative summit, according to four sources familiar with the talks. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has argued that he cannot pass controversial deficit-reduction legislation using powerful budget procedures with his new 51-vote majority — and wasn’t even sure he could find the votes for a fiscal blueprint in the first place.

Abandoning the budget, however, would be an embarrassment for Republicans, who for years railed against Democrats when they avoided one of the most basic responsibilities of Congress.

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[Bigun]

I am SO damned tired of these weak-kneed, linguini-spined jerks I can't stand it!

[INVAR]

McConnell only passes stuff that favors the DEMOCRAT AGENDA.  The idea he can muster votes to actually DO THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY is "controversial" and therefore a 'dead deal'.

Anyone after years of this bullshit, cannot discern that the Republican Party and the Democrat Party are one and the same damn Oligarchy, are willfully blind.