The big budget news (always an eyeball grabber) is that Senate Budget Committee chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND) and his House counterpart John Spratt (D-SC) are taking machetes to Obama’s proposal, released last month. The Washington Post reports that the two are poised to release budget blueprints that “cut hundreds of billions of dollars from Obama’s spending request over the next five years.”
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=144545