Posted on 01/31/2015 2:06:12 PM PST by Kaslin
WASHINGTON (AP) — After a year of relative peace in Washington's budget battles, President Barack Obama will lay out a $4 trillion budget on Monday that needles Republicans with proposals for higher taxes on the wealthy and businesses to pay for education, public works projects and child care.
The plan, expected to be dismissed by GOP lawmakers now running Capitol Hill, rolls out as the deficit is dropping and Obama's poll numbers inch higher. Though Republicans will march ahead on their own, they ultimately must come to terms with Obama, whose signature is needed on anything that is going to become law.
Big challenges loom: the need to increase the government's borrowing limit; a deadline for sustaining highway funding; a bipartisan effort to ease painful, automatic cuts to the Pentagon and domestic agencies. Those cuts are the byproduct of Washington's previous failures to tackle the government's deficit woes.
First on the agenda is the need to finalize the current-year budget for the Department of Homeland Security. It's tied up over a GOP demand to reverse Obama's November executive actions that extended work permits and temporary deportation relief to some 4 million people in the U.S. illegally. Funding for the department runs out Feb. 27. Obama planned a budget speech at the department Monday.
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Watch yourself... the Jedi Mindtrick of getting everyone on board on the class warfare shtick is afoot.
Let the House vote on 0bama’s budget.
See who votes yes, and who votes no.
And then let the adults assemble a budget.
I want a budget battle.
“Battle”? Who’s the noob reporter out there claiming the GOP is going to do anything other than roll over and wet on themselves like a bunch of whipped puppies?
...with proposals for higher taxes on the wealthy and businesses to pay for education, public works projects and child care.No, higher taxes on the wealthy and businesses to pay for more gov't "jobs" to "administer" illusory programs for *other people's* education, public works projects and child care.
You got me there!
Who is this Obama? of whom they speak?
Who much tax money and spending does he control?
I call Bull Squeeze!
Then the republicans will say “We couldn’t win this battle. But just wait till we get the white house, by golly.”
Boner and McConman are hoping for it so that their own job of getting the Sultan’s program through Congress becomes easier. The Republican Congressional Manual has a whole section on how to evince fear of a government shutdown including talking points about how the nation will Default and all the Republicans will be turned out of office if the Government is allowed to be Shut Down.
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