Yesterday, the House passed on a party line vote of 217-215, a ten-year budget plan that includes an increase of $100 billion for the Pentagon. The plan, according to Stars & Stripes, would raise spending for the military and security at the U.S.-Mexico border while slashing federal spending elsewhere and extending $4.5 trillion in tax cuts. Rep. Mike Rogers of Alabama, the Republican chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said that the blueprint will ultimately allow the U.S. to get defense spending back above 4% of gross domestic product.
The House budget resolution would add about $3 trillion to the deficit in a decade while mandating deep cuts that threaten to significantly shrink Medicaid and food programs for low-income individuals. It also calls for the debt limit to be raised by $4 trillion.
