Republicans reject Obama budget, facing spending fights of their own
- 8 years ago
Leading Republicans are swiftly and universally rejecting President Obama’s $4.1 trillion budget proposal, blasting it as a “radical” agenda intended to help his party at the polls.
Speaker Paul Ryan dismissed the request as a nonstarter for his party's budget negotiations, which will run through this fall.
“This isn’t even a budget so much as it is a progressive manual for growing the federal government at the expense of hardworking Americans,” Ryan said in a statement.
Leaders of the House and Senate Budget committees announced last week that they would not invite Obama's budget director to speak about the proposal, a snub that breaks decades of precedent.
Instead, Republicans say they will create their own joint budget resolution to present to the president later this year.
Speaker Paul Ryan dismissed the request as a nonstarter for his party's budget negotiations, which will run through this fall.
“This isn’t even a budget so much as it is a progressive manual for growing the federal government at the expense of hardworking Americans,” Ryan said in a statement.
Leaders of the House and Senate Budget committees announced last week that they would not invite Obama's budget director to speak about the proposal, a snub that breaks decades of precedent.
Instead, Republicans say they will create their own joint budget resolution to present to the president later this year.