House Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) on Wednesday said the committee is working to release the long-awaited budget plan before the end of September.
“I can’t let a fiscal year go by without our budget that our committee has worked so hard on, and that we’ve worked with every member, every faction, every caucus in our conference, to get to a good place, ” Arrington said Wednesday morning.
“That’s all reflected in our resolution, our draft resolution, and my plan is to make sure that resolution gets marked up and passed out of committee by the end of the fiscal year,” he said.
The current fiscal year is scheduled to end on Sept.
Arrington said more details about the scope of the plan will come “when we’re ready to put it on the committee table for discussion and debate and markup.”
“But I think it’s a responsible budget. This is a path to balance,” he said, “and our country desperately needs a responsible fiscal plan and a path to balance because the current fiscal path is unsustainable, and our debt will explode with it. that country.”
His comments as efforts to release the committee’s budget blueprint appear to have been put on the backburner months ago as bipartisan negotiations over the nation’s debt ceiling dominate the focus on Capitol Hill.
But Arrington said Wednesday that the budget panel had a consensus on not going “through this fiscal year without at least marking up a committee budget and passing it.”
“We are working with the wider conference to get closer to 218,” he added.
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