President Donald Trump came out in support of the House GOP budget proposal Wednesday morning, throwing a wrench into Senate Republicans’ plan to pass a slimmer budget quickly to give the president early wins on border security and defense spending in his second term.
Senate and House Republicans have been pursuing competing budget plans with the Senate set to vote later this week on its own budget resolution that would authorize $340 billion in new border security and defense spending and change federal energy policy to allow for new oil and gas lease sales. Trump had largely stayed out of the debate over process until Wednesday as both chambers moved full steam ahead with competing budget proposals. House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune both signaled that the other leader’s proposal was dead-on-arrival in their respective chambers. (RELATED:…
