GOP faces critical month for budget

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

When the Republican-controlled Congress returns to Washington this week, it will face a political and procedural gordian knot to advance its agenda, the heart of which centers around the budget.

Congress has just three legislative weeks before the August recess and one month after that before an impending government shutdown and debt ceiling breach — not to mention the small matters of healthcare and tax reform, which are all tied in some way to the budget.

“There are a lot of moving parts,” said Brookings Institution budget expert Molly Reynolds. 

To begin with, neither the House nor the Senate’s budget committees have unveiled their budgets, which set the spending levels for the next fiscal year.

The problem is division within the Republican caucus, which is being pulled in opposing directions by defense hawks, deficit hawks and moderates. 

http://thehill.com/policy/finance/341055-gop-faces-critical-month-for-budget?rnd=1499572053

[DetlefK]

1. As John Boehner said: Republicans are hardliners who refuse to budge, even with their own.

He said it after Trump's election with respect to healthcare-reform: Each republican faction has their own idea what healthcare-reform should be like and nobody is willing to compromise, not even with other GOP-factions.

But the same argument applies to anything else.