Leading Republicans are swiftly and universally rejecting President Obama’s $4.1 trillion budget proposal, blasting it as a “radical” agenda intended to help his party at the polls.
Speaker Paul Ryan dismissed the request as a nonstarter for his party's budget negotiations, which will run through this fall.
“This isn’t even a budget so much as it is a progressive manual for growing the federal government at the expense of hardworking Americans,” Ryan said in a statement.
Leaders of the House and Senate Budget committees announced last week that they would not invite Obama's budget director to speak about the proposal, a snub that breaks decades of precedent.
Instead, Republicans say they will create their own joint budget resolution to present to the president later this year.