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THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER — The Republican-led House will soon vote on a budget resolution authored by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., who is likely to propose a plan that cuts taxes and reduces the growth of entitlement programs, including welfare.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., told GOP lawmakers in a Friday memo that the next three-week House work period, which begins March 24, will include a vote on a budget resolution that “balances the budget in ten years.” The House will also consider three additional “budget process reform bills” that would cut spending and improve “accountability and transparency to the taxpayer,” Cantor said.
Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, has not yet unveiled his budget blueprint but it’s likely to build off his fiscal 2012 and 2013 proposals, with the addition of new reforms to the nation’s growing social welfare programs. Earlier this month, Ryan produced a 204-page report that criticized the hundreds of federal programs that assist the impoverished. Ryan said the system included overlaps and waste and has “actually created a poverty trap” for the poor.
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