GOP = heartless bastages
House GOP to push for $50 billion in federal budget cuts
By Jonathan Weisman
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders have moved from balking at big cuts in Medicaid and other programs to embracing them, driven by pent-up anger from fiscal conservatives concerned about runaway spending and by the leadership's weakening hold on power.
Beginning this week, House GOP lawmakers will take steps to cut as much as $50 billion from the fiscal 2006 budget for health care for the poor, food stamps and farm supports, and will consider across-the-board cuts in other programs.
Mind you, not a whisper about cutting tax "relief" for the rich.
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