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Ryan Budget Gets 40 Votes in Senate, Obama Budget Gets 0

By John McCormack
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That big fat zero is not a typo.

Not a single U.S. senator voted in favor of President Obama’s budget proposal. Meanwhile, five members of GOP caucus voted against Ryan budget: moderates Scott Brown (Mass.), Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, independent Lisa Murkowski (Ak.), and staunch libertarian Rand Paul (Ky.). So all of the swing state Republican senators sided with Ryan.

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