House Majority Leader: GOP’s Long-Overdue Budget Blueprint To Move Ahead

UNITED STATES - MARCH 19: House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., right, whispers to House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., during the House Republican leadership media availability after the House... UNITED STATES - MARCH 19: House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., right, whispers to House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., during the House Republican leadership media availability after the House Republican Conference meeting in the basement of the Capitol on Tuesday, March 19, 2013. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) (CQ Roll Call via AP Images) MORE LESS
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican leader says the House is moving ahead with the party’s long-overdue budget blueprint, even as divisions between moderates and conservatives over cutting programs like food stamps threaten passage of the measure.

Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Friday that the Budget Committee will vote next week on the plan, which would spend far more money next year than President Donald Trump’s proposal. Passing the measure through the House and Senate is a prerequisite to the Republican drive this fall to overhaul the tax code.

Earlier divisions between the GOP’s defense hawks and the party’s tough-on-spending wing have been resolved, but tea party forces and Republican moderates remain at odds.

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