'Last Gasp' for House GOP Budget

The law mandates that Congress enact a budget resolution by April 15 – this Friday.  But after months of promising to return order to the House, Speaker Ryan and House Republican Leaders have failed to even bring their ruinous budget up for a vote due to internal dysfunction.  After all, Speaker Ryan is the former Chairman of the House Budget Committee, so this is embarrassing.  Today, CQ reports that the GOP's disastrous, Road to Ruin budget is facing its "last gasp":

House Budget Resolution Likely Nearing Its Last Gasp

A fiscal 2017 budget resolution appears to remain out of reach for House Republicans who return to Washington Tuesday from a two-week recess.

Short of an unexpected change of heart among opponents of the plan (H Con Res 125), there is no visible path to adoption on the House floor, according to lawmakers, staff and people close to the process…

[Rep. Tom] Cole said it is his sense that no progress was made during the recess.

"I think we're pretty much where we were when we left," he said…

Dozens of conservatives, including members of the House Freedom Caucus and some who belong to the much larger Republican Study Committee, are opposed to the budget resolution because it maintains the higher, $1.07 trillion discretionary spending topline from last year's budget deal…

GOP leadership aides reiterated that discussions are continuing, but none of them predicted that the budget would get enough support to move forward.

An aide to the Republican Study Committee, which took a position against the budget resolution at the $1.07 trillion level, said the budget is at a "pretty precarious place."

The Do-Nothing Congress is back – and Speaker Ryan's "big ideas" media tour can't conceal the total dysfunction of the Republican House.  Rather than joining with Democrats to pass a budget that creates jobs and grows the paychecks of hard-working Americans, Speaker Ryan and House Republicans have decided that they can't pass a budget at all.