Over the next week, Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) plans “to jam two big-ticket items through the House — a show of strength for a leadership team stung by a string a defeats and facing doubts about whether it even can govern,” Politico reports.
“First, to get a budget approved, the Republican leaders intend to employ a parliamentary maneuver to boost defense spending by $20 billion without any corresponding spending cuts. They’re betting the move will help break a stalemate between fiscal hardliners and defense hawks. Within days of that, the GOP leaders will try to pass a permanent fix to the ‘Sustainable Growth Rate,’ a formula by which the federal government reimburses doctors who serve Medicare patients.”
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