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Jackson, Ryan[jackson.ryan@epa.gov] POLITICO Pro Tue 7/18/2017 4:05:10 PM Black: GOP budget resolution will reach House floor
By Sarah Ferris
07/18/2017 11:59 AM EDT
House Budget Chairwoman Diane Black insists her newly unveiled blueprint will reach the House floor, but she has stopped short of committing to passage.
"I can tell you that this budget will come out of our committee tomorrow," Black told reporters this morning. "It will be a budget that will then come to the House floor."
The GOP budget resolution, unveiled today, has been stalled for months as Black struggled to win over dozens of holdouts from the divided House Republican caucus, which also failed to pass a budget resolution on the floor last year.
Black said she is still meeting with GOP lawmakers outside her committee "to help them understand" the full scope of the budget resolution -- and the implications of not passing it.
"We will be working all the members and making sure they understand the significance and importance of what we put into this document," she said.
The partisan resolution stands no chance of securing Democratic votes, so Republicans can only afford 22 Republican naysayers on the floor.
Already, about 30 GOP moderates have vowed to oppose the plan because it calls for $200 billion in mandatory cuts they believe could jeopardize tax reform. The House Freedom Caucus, which has about two dozen members, has also threatened to block the budget as the group presses for steeper cuts and a clearer picture of their party's tax overhaul strategy.
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