{"id":6241,"date":"2025-02-17T08:22:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T08:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-budget-draft-unveiled-ahead-of-thursday-markup-2\/"},"modified":"2025-02-17T08:22:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T08:22:26","slug":"house-budget-draft-unveiled-ahead-of-thursday-markup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-budget-draft-unveiled-ahead-of-thursday-markup-2\/","title":{"rendered":"House budget draft unveiled ahead of Thursday markup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House Budget Committee unveiled a fiscal blueprint for Republicans&#8217; sweeping domestic policy legislation Wednesday that would allow for at least $4.5 trillion in tax cuts while slashing spending by at least $1.5 trillion over the coming decade. The draft budget resolution also provides for as much as $300 billion in new border and defense spending and would allow Republicans to raise the debt limit by $4 trillion &mdash; enough for about a two-year extension&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/02\/12\/congress\/house-budget-draft-00002390\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Budget Committee unveiled a fiscal blueprint for Republicans&#8217; sweeping domestic policy legislation Wednesday that would allow for at least $4.5 trillion in tax cuts while slashing spending by at least $1.5 trillion over the coming decade. The draft budget resolution also provides for as much as $300 billion in new border and defense [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}