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GOP Leadership Divided On Prospects For Medicare Deal With Democrats

05/05/2011 4:45 pm 0 comments

Source: Philip Rucker, Paul Kane and Lori Montgomery / The Washington Post

Heading into key debt talks with the White House, congressional Republicans publicly split Thursday over the prospects for their ambitious proposal to transform Medicare.

The division came as two senior Republicans, House Majority Whip Eric Cantor (Va.) and Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (Ariz.), entered Blair House Thursday morning for the start of a broad fiscal negotiation with Vice President Biden and Senate Democrats. The talks are designed to reach a deal to allow the Treasury to continue borrowing money to finance the federal government in exchange for budgetary changes that would slash annual deficits.

Less than three weeks after his ambitious 10-year plan was approved, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said that Republicans are “under no illusion” they will reach an agreement on changes to Medicare and other contentious issues that have divided the two parties in the current budget battle. Rather, he said, House Republicans would accept a deal to raise the legal limit for government borrowing in exchange for spending cuts and other spending controls.

“We are under no illusion that we’re going to get everything we’ve always wanted in this one bill, but let’s get a good down payment,” Ryan said in a question-and-answer session following a Thursday morning speech before the American Council for Capital Formation.

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