Tuesday, May 2, 2017

REPUBLICANS BRACE FOR WAR WITH EACH OTHER

House Speaker Paul Ryan speaks to the media after a meeting with Polish President Andrzej Duda on April 21, 2017, in the presidential palace in Warsaw, Poland. Ryan will likely need Democratic votes to pass a budget proposal to fund the government through September.

As Trump budget plans fade, Republicans brace for war – with each other

BY WILLIAM DOUGLAS AND ALEX DAUGHERTY
McClatchy Washington Bureau
    WASHINGTON 
Look out, Republicans up for re-election in 2018. Look out, House Speaker Paul Ryan.
The fiery, never-give-in ultra-conservative wing of the GOP is highly displeased with the budget agreement reached this week.
“Instead of fighting for President Trump’s conservative budget priorities, they have surrendered to the Democrats once again,” Ken Cuccinelli, a former Virginia attorney general who heads the Senate Conservatives Fund, said of congressional Republican leaders

Democrats are elated over the $1.07 trillion budget deal, which reads almost like an Obama administration blueprint.
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