House Republican leaders released a $95 billion GOP-led on Wednesday
appropriations framework they hope to pass by late summer. Budget Committee
Chairman Jodey Arrington has scheduled committee markup for Thursday morning.
The package would use the reconciliation procedure to bypass a Senate filibuster
and earmarks about $73 billion for military and intelligence, $12 billion for
farm aid and $10 billion for state election grants and other measures to enforce
stricter voter ID laws. The measure faces uncertainty even if it clears
committee: committee fiscal hawks demand offsetting cuts to neutralize added
deficit impact, but the framework says the likelihood of securing those offsets
is low, raising the prospect of unfinanced spending and intra-party dissent.
