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FreedomWorks
On Agreeing to the Amendment: McClintock Amendment to H.Con.Res. 71 - FY 2018 Budget Resolution.
The Republican Study Committee’s (RSC) FY 2018 budget, introduced as an amendment by Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Calif.), would reduce federal spending by more than $10 trillion over the ten-year budget window, bringing the budget into balance in FY 2023. The RSC’s budget would repeal ObamaCare and enact other patient-centered health insurance reforms, make Social Security and Medicare solvent, and reform federal welfare programs. It also promotes free trade, regulatory reform, and other free market, limited government principles. The current text of H.Con.Res. 71 and the McClintock amendment include language that allows the House Ways and Means Committee to produce legislation to reform the tax code. Riddled with loopholes and special interest deductions, America’s tax code has become far too complex. According to the Tax Foundation, Americans spent 8.9 billion hours and $409 billion complying with the more than 74,000-page tax code.
National Taxpayers Union
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American Conservative Union
H Con Res 71 Conservative Budget Proposal.
The Congressman Tom McClintock (R-CA) amendment to the Budget Bill for Fiscal Year 2018 implements the House Republican Study Committee budget proposal, also known as the conservative budget. Among other provisions, the proposal balances the budget in five years, caps discretionary spending, reforms entitlements, including combining Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) into a single block grant, reforms Medicare to keep it solvent and helps preserve Social Security by increasing the retirement age beginning in 2022. This group supports these proposals that tackle our long-term debt and bankrupt entitlement programs others have refused to deal with and supported this amendment. The House defeated the amendment.
National Education Association
CONSERVATIVES’ BUDGET PROPOSAL FOR FISCAL YEAR (FY) 2018.
This group opposed a draconian FY18 budget proposal by the Republican Study Committee, which, if enacted, would balance the budget on the backs of those least able to afford it by cutting spending by $5.7 trillion over 10 years, repealing the Affordable Care Act, increasing the Medicare eligibility age, and turning Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program into block grants. The legislation failed.
Citizens Against Government Waste
Fiscal 2018 Budget Resolution -- Republican Study Committee Substitute.
McClintock, R-Calif., substitute amendment that would provide for $2.9 trillion in new budget authority in fiscal 2018. It would balance the budget by fiscal 2023 by reducing spending by $10.1 trillion over 10 years. It would cap total discretionary spending at $1.06 trillion for fiscal 2018 and would assume no separate Overseas Contingency Operations funding for fiscal 2018 or subsequent years and would incorporate funding related to war or terror into the base defense account. It would assume repeal of the 2010 health care overhaul and would convert Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program into a single block grant program. It would require that off budget programs, such as Social Security, the U.S. Postal Service, and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, be included in the budget.
The Club for Growth
Substitute amendment to the budget resolution to adopt the Republican Study Committee proposal to cut spending and balance the budget.
Substitute amendment to the budget resolution to adopt the Republican Study Committee proposal to cut spending and balance the budget.