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Cuts to Medicare and the health care law and almost $40 billion in unrequested money for overseas war-fighting operations top the agenda as congressional negotiators meet to begin ironing out a Republican budget blueprint for next year and beyond.
Separate House- and Senate-passed budget plans have plenty in common. Both chambers want to use the fast-track budget process to send a measure repealing the health care law to President Barack Obama.
At issue is a nonbinding measure for the 2016 fiscal year starting on Oct. 1. Both House and Senate Republicans have endorsed major cuts to programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, highway projects and domestic agency budgets as a way to bring the federal ledger into balance within a decade — without raising taxes.
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how about not passing the 20 billion dollar gift to rich kids be eliminating the estate tax? or does that need to be made up for by ss cuts and medicare cuts too?
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