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Bush Threatens Veto if His Cost Cuts Not in Budget
Resolution
Medicare, Medicaid reductions by Bush likely
big stumbling block
April 10, 2006 – President George W. Bush, who has
never used his veto power, said Friday he will veto the fiscal year 2007
budget resolution from Congress if it does not include cuts he has
recommended in his budget. Presumably, this includes the large cuts in
Medicare and Medicaid recommended by the President but ignored, so far,
in the budget resolutions in both houses of Congress.
 President Bush Says He Will Veto Budget Package
That Does Not Curb Spending
President Bush on Friday said he would veto the
fiscal year 2007 budget resolution unless Congress includes spending
reductions that he has requested to reduce the federal deficit by half
by FY 2009, the
Washington Times
reports (Curl, Washington Times, 4/8).
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The House on Thursday adjourned for a two-week
recess without a vote on the budget resolution amid disagreement among
Republican appropriators, conservatives and moderates. The House budget
resolution includes $6.8 billion in spending reductions for entitlement
programs but excludes reductions for Medicare and Medicaid.
In addition, the House budget resolution includes
an $873 billion cap on discretionary spending requested by President
Bush. Under the discretionary spending cap, spending for health and
other nonsecurity programs would remain at about FY 2006 levels (Kaiser
Daily Health Policy Report, 4/7).
House Republican moderates, such as Rep. Nancy
Johnson (R-Conn.), have sought to add about $7 billion to the
discretionary spending cap for health, education and other domestic
programs, and conservatives have "balked, demanding tight spending caps
and pushing budget reforms that would further control domestic
spending," the Times reports (Washington Times, 4/8).
The Senate budget resolution, which passed last
month, would add more than $16 billion to the discretionary spending cap
(Kaiser
Daily Health Policy Report, 3/29). Bush said, "If necessary,
I will enforce spending restraint through the exercise of the veto"
(Washington Times, 4/8).
House Negotiations Likely To Resume
House Republican leaders on Friday "vowed to try to resurrect"
negotiations on the budget resolution after the spring recess,
CongressDaily reports (Cohn, CongressDaily, 4/7).
House Majority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) said, "I do
think we have a real opportunity to get back and get this budget done,"
although certain "process-oriented issues," such as provisions on
emergency spending and earmarks, remain.
Under the emergency spending provision, which was
part of a package of budgetary enforcement measures negotiated last week
between House Republican leaders and conservatives, oversight of
appropriations for nonmilitary emergency spending that exceeds $4.3
billion would shift from
House
Appropriations Committee the to the
House Budget
Committee.
In response, House Appropriations Committee Chair
Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.), who opposes the emergency spending provision,
asked all 36 members of the committee to oppose the budget resolution.
According to CQ Today, "Blunt's remarks appeared to signal that GOP
leaders might try to break off the emergency spending provision" (Ferrechio,
CQ Today, 4/7).
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