The Obama administration is keeping its powder dry on the question of how it’ll manage the government if the GOP gets its way and cuts domestic spending by 20 percent. That’s an outcome they’d obviously like to avoid. But as long as it remains a possibility, two things are clear: first, after laying out its own budget priorities, the White House will keep fairly quiet while waiting for the GOP to lay out its counter-proposal. And second, Obama won’t let Republicans use the budget process as a backdoor to defanging or destroying the health care law.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=115341