Politico
Meredith Lee Hill
29 January 2025
Republicans on Wednesday gave shape to their ambitious party-line domestic policy plans, with several House chairs outlining the fiscal parameters they plan to meet as lawmakers begin writing a budgetary blueprint for the effort.
In addition to deep spending cuts across committee jurisdictions, Republicans are targeting $125 billion in additional defense spending in the package, according to two people with direct knowledge who were granted anonymity to discuss the private meeting.
The Transportation and Infrastructure Committee may able to find as much as $16 billion in savings...and the Homeland Security Committee is seeking another $90 billion — mostly for border security measures.
Those numbers reflect Johnson’s desire to “set [a budget resolution] number that’s really a floor in what we hope to achieve by savings, and not the ceiling,” as he told reporters earlier Wednesday.
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