Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) will force Republicans to vote on the House GOP budget, Medicare privatization and all. That’s a shrewd move no matter the result — either a lot of Republicans vote for it, and then own it politically, or it splits the party and validates the view that supporting the plan is an extreme position.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=112128