House GOP Releases Budget Plan in Bid to Ease Shutdown Fight (1)

House Republicans released a budget resolution Tuesday outlining a plan to balance the federal budget over a decade, hoping the big-picture framework will help ease tensions among conservatives and GOP leaders as the Sept. 30 deadline to avert a shutdown approaches.

House Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington’s (R-Texas) budget resolution projects to balance the budget by fiscal 2033, outlining $16 trillion in deficit cuts. It sidesteps key debates on entitlement solvency, instead calling for a bipartisan commission to address major drivers of the federal deficit. And it relies on an aggressive projection of 3% annual economic growth, compared to the ...