Nick Timiraos writes the agreement marks the first House-Senate Republican budget resolution in six years and was cleared by Senate on a 51-48 vote Tuesday, with all Democrat members voting against it.
The blueprint also includes a strategy for Republicans to use a “reconciliation” process in an attempt to modify some aspects of the healthcare law, according to WSJ.
This procedure does not require a 60-majority vote to pass legislation in the upper chamber.
USA Today reports Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said the 2016 budget “aims to make government more efficient, more effective and more accountable to the middle class.”