http://news.yahoo.com/republicans-reach-deal-budget-plan-target-obamacare-215617618--business.html
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican budget negotiators on Monday reached a compromise deal for the first joint House-Senate budget in six years, one that seeks to boost military spending while calling for deep cuts to social programs to eliminate deficits in a decade.
But congressional aides said the deal, to be formally unveiled on Tuesday, will stop well short of directing appropriations committees to actually implement those cuts.
Instead, it will focus on the use of budget procedural tools on repealing or replacing President Barack Obama's signature health reform legislation, the aides said.
not 5 months into this year and still they are riding that dead horse of ObamaCares repeal i see they added the replace back in the shame of not having a replacement prompted them to reframe from using it in conjunction with their failed repeal 56 times effort. did somebody wipe their servers clean of emails Americans like and want this law by 72%, but their habit is to dismiss what we the people say and want by telling us what we really want and have said they ought to write a book "our world according to us". insurance co.'s, hospitals, Dr.'s all love it so what are they fighting against it for sour grapes???
Passing a budget will allow Republicans the opportunity to use budget "reconciliation" procedures to dismantle "Obamacare" with only a simple majority vote in the Senate, rather than a near-impossible 60 vote margin that would require some Democratic support.
As reported by Reuters last week, the compromise budget will exclude Representative Paul Ryan's longstanding proposals to convert the Medicare health program for seniors to a system of subsidies for largely private health insurance.
The House of Representatives had included the Medicare reforms in its budget for a fifth straight year, calling for the changes to start in 2024. But the more cautious Senate did not include the proposals, adopting similar savings goals for the program as Obama proposed.
The Republican budget will nominally maintain statutory "sequester" spending caps for the military and domestic federal agencies for the 2016 fiscal year starting Oct. 1. But at the same time it skirts the caps by providing an additional $38 billion in military spending via a special off-budget account for war operations.
Once the budget is passed, the fiscal debate will shift to a separate effort to find other savings or revenue increases to ease the sequester spending constraints that were enacted in a 2011 budget law.
If Congress fails to lift the spending caps, military and domestic agency spending next year would stay flat at about $1 trillion, the same level as a decade ago. This also would make passage of spending bills more difficult, raising the risk of a government shutdown on Oct. 1.
Americans we know that the republican claim that Obama was coming for your guns was a bald faced lie but the fact the republicans are coming for your ACA insurance is a reality they have been saying so for going on 7 years is that proof enough for you? the end result sounds like they are gearing up for another confrontation on budget a last minute attempt to deprive not only the Pres. but we the people of gov't services costing millions while they play hide the bill and sink the Pres. and detract from his legacy. i'm sure history will credit any uncompleted promise to republican obstruction in the meanwhile they can suck on this,
