Extremists Putting Speaker Ryan's 'Road to Ruin' Budget in 'Serious Jeopardy'
From CNN:
Republican opposition puts Paul Ryan budget in serious jeopardy
Conservatives in the House Freedom Caucus, stirred by the anti-Washington rhetoric dominating the presidential campaign, pulled the rug out from Ryan on Monday night when they voted to oppose the leadership's budget proposal. Without the votes of the roughly 40 members in that group, nothing can pass on the House floor without Democratic support, which Ryan won't get.
If House Republicans fail to approve a budget they won't be able to act on the dozen annual spending bills, and once again this fall congressional leaders will have to fashion a stopgap funding bill to avoid a government shutdown.
From POLITICO:
The House Republican budget is in trouble.
Speaker Paul Ryan's Republican leadership team knows it. Most members of the House are acutely aware of it. And most of them even realize how bad it will look. The same party that dreamed up "No Budget, No Pay" to shame Democrats for skipping their fiscal blueprint might now take a pass on its own.
Failing to pass a budget wouldn't be bad just for Ryan's gambit as the new speaker to get the House functioning again . It would also stymie the appropriations process and likely force the House to pass yet another stopgap spending bill. Some conservatives have railed against so-called continuing resolutions and would prefer the House to pass all 12 appropriations bills — that's the "regular order" everyone has been clamoring for. But absent a budget, that idea will likely be in the dustbin.
From The Wall Street Journal:
House Republicans Divided Over Budget
House conservatives have vowed to block a fiscal 2017 budget put forth by Republican leadership Tuesday…
If Republicans cannot coalesce around their budget, which will be debated Wednesday in the House Budget Committee, GOP leaders are unlikely to bring it up for a vote on the House floor.
From The New York Times:
Ryan's Budget Proposal Runs Into Opposition From Some Hard-Line Republicans
[Speaker Ryan's] first chance to pass a fiscal blueprint as speaker of the House is at risk of being derailed by the conservatives who forced a government shutdown in 2013 and ousted his predecessor last fall.
…Republican leadership probably will not have enough votes to pass the budget.
It's perhaps no surprise that Chairman Price's Republican Members started bailing on him this morning:
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House Budget Dems remark that Chairman @RepTomPrice's GOP colleagues have left him all alone #CQonBudget@CQnow
