House ready to OK GOP budget, rejects rival plans

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Republicans are ready to muscle a $3.5 trillion budget through the House that showcases their election-year vision of slicing agency spending, revamping Medicare and rejecting President Barack Obama's call to raise taxes on the rich.

The deficit-cutting blueprint for 2013 is all but certain to pass the GOP-run chamber on Thursday.

First, there will be votes on a conservative proposal that cuts spending even deeper than the Republican plan would, and on a Democratic alternative that mostly leaves Medicare alone and boosts education and public works spending in an attempt to create jobs.

Both face sure rejection.

Wednesday night, lawmakers overwhelmingly killed a bipartisan package that relied on a compromise combination of higher revenues and spending cuts to reduce mammoth federal deficits. They also unanimously defeated Obama's budget.

Associated Press

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