House ready to OK GOP budget, rejects rival plans

House ready to OK GOP budget, rejects rival plans

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are ready to ram through the House an election-year, $3.5 trillion budget that showcases their deficit-cutting plan for revamping Medicare and slicing everything from food stamps to transportation while rejecting President Barack Obama’s call to raise taxes on the rich. The blueprint by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., was headed for all but certain House passage today, mostly along party lines. It faces a demise that is just as sure in the Democratic-run Senate, which plans to ignore it, but the battle remains significant because of the clarity with which it contrasts the two parties’ budgetary visions for voters.