{"id":60699,"date":"2015-04-28T14:18:55","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T14:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2015\/04\/28\/budget-boss-to-gop-seek-deal-on-budget-caps\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:25:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:25:28","slug":"budget-boss-to-gop-seek-deal-on-budget-caps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2015\/04\/28\/budget-boss-to-gop-seek-deal-on-budget-caps\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget Boss to GOP: Seek Deal on Budget Caps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 Republicans can avoid vetoes of their spending bills if they and Democrats strike a deal addressing federal spending caps, a senior Obama administration official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The White House has said President Barack Obama would veto any legislation passed by the GOP-controlled Congress that addressed future Pentagon budget caps but left ones governing domestic spending untouched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Office of Management and Budget Chief Shaun Donovan, during a Bloomberg television interview, implied that Obama will veto bills with more for defense but not domestic programs when annual spending bills begin hitting his desk in a few months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The president has been very clear. He&#8217;s drawn two red lines,&#8221; Donovan said. &#8220;He is not going to accept a budget that puts sequestration in place that locks it in, and he&#8217;s not going to accept a bill that fixes defense without bills that also fix the non-defense part of the budget.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span>Instead, Donovan said Republicans on Capitol Hill should start talks with Democrats about w<\/span><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\">hat&#8217;s often called on Capitol Hill a &#8220;Ryan-Murray II&#8221; deal.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/budget-policy\/budget\" style=\"color: #1990e5; background-color: #ffffff;\"><b>Complete coverage of the 2016 budget<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is talk about trying to push through both chambers later this year a fiscal bill that would mirror the 2012 budget resolution crafted by then-House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and then-Senate Budget Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash. That bill provided two years of relief from spending caps for defense and domestic programs. A Ryan-Murray II would do the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The smart thing we should do is follow the bipartisan model we had two years ago, the Murray-Ryan deal, raise our investment on the non-defense side and the defense side of the budget on the discretionary side, and pay for it through smart reforms to our medical programs and to our tax system,&#8221; Donovan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;That is what we did two years ago. We came together on a bipartisan basis,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We can do it again. And that&#8217;s what the president is asking Congress to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both the House and Senate passed GOP-crafted 2016 budget resolutions that added around $40 billion to the Pentagon&#8217;s war fund, a nod to defense hawks who say the military is underfunded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The chambers&#8217; budget plans called for an overseas contingency operations (OCO) account of around $90 billion, up from the Obama administration&#8217;s $50.9 billion request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Obama administration opposes the move, which is expected to be codified by House and Senate budget conferees working on a compromise version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The congressional defense committees, however, are not waiting for the conference committee to produce a final 2016 budget blueprint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday will mark up its 2016 national defense authorization act (NDAA) with the $90 billion war-fund level. That is setting up a showdown with Obama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Capitol Hill, recent news reports about bipartisan interest in a Ryan-Murray II deal has triggered whispers that a deal could get done late this summer or by early fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senators told CongressWatch last week that several groups are &#8220;talking&#8221; behind the scenes about another spending cap-raising deal. But, so far, no group has released legislation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span>And when the budget conferees met publicly last week, <\/span><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\">the first call for a follow-on Ryan-Murray II deal was not uttered until about 90 minutes into the session.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It came from Senate Budget Committee member Tim Kaine, D-Va., who called on the conference committee to produce a &#8220;serious&#8221; final spending blueprint. To Kaine, any &#8220;serious&#8221; measure would include a Ryan-Murray sequel, and would address what many see as a shortfall in annual Pentagon spending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1012\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/d-day.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-116327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/d-day.jpg.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/d-day.jpg.jpg?resize=300,169 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/d-day.jpg.jpg?resize=768,432 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/d-day.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,576 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/d-day.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,864 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kaine also sits on the Armed Services Committee, and said in a brief interview that he and the four other senators who sit on that panel and the Budget Committee are discussing a possible Ryan-Murray II framework.<br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senior Democratic members in both chambers, however, dismiss any notion of a GOP-run Congress passing a bill that would raise domestic spending \u2014 even in order to give the Pentagon a year or two of additional budget relief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sen. 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