The blueprint conflicts with a Senate budget resolution, which doesn't address taxes or the debt ceiling. It also includes less funding than the Senate's for immigration enforcement.

House Republicans unveiled a long-awaited budget resolution Wednesday that would kick-start a reconciliation process to slash federal spending, extend expiring tax cuts, raise the nation’s borrowing limit and pump up border security and military funding.

House Republicans released their long-awaited budget resolution Wednesday, a major step in starting to craft legislation to implement President Trump’s agenda — which will allow up to $4.5 trillion to be added to the deficit via tax cuts and look to cut $2 trillion in spending over the next decade.

In the weeks since Donald Trump returned to office, Democrats and legal scholars have warned that he’s provoking a constitutional crisis by trying to expand his power and ignore laws that stand in his way.

- A drawn portrait of Marc Fogel, who has been detained in Russia since August 2021, hangs on rails outside of the White House during a demonstration organized by his family, July 15, 2023, in Washington.

The White House pointed out that the AP was allowed into its briefing Wednesday but continued to take issue with the style of the gulf’s name. “Nobody has the right to go into the Oval Office and ask the president of the United States questions,” Leavitt said. “We reserve the right to decide who gets to go into the Oval Office.”

The wire service said the decision stemmed from a style guidance to continue using the name Gulf of Mexico instead of Gulf of America.